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rsync with Cygwin creating weird directories

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Mar 15, 20261598 views

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I'm trying to use rsync to backup data from a local shared drive to a remove server. Both the local machine and the remote server are running Cygwin under Windows XP. I use the following command: rsync -aze ssh --size-only --delete //SharedFolder/dir/subdir user@remoteserver:/cygdrive/c/dir The pro…

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The problem was that the script file used to run the command was saved in the Windows format with \r\n line separators. That weird character was the carriage return. I saved the file in the unix format with just \n and things are now fine.

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rsync with Cygwin creating weird directories

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