I've been using a powershell script to create shadow copies and link 
them to the filesystem in order to expose them to rsyncd. This works 
with my oldish copy of DeltaCopy rsync, but when I use the current 
cygwin-rsync package from the BackupPC web site I'm not able to follow 
the link.

If I tell it to follow the link:
  rsync -r -L rsyncuser@host::shadow
symlink has no referent: "C" (in shadow)
drwxr-xr-x           0 2014/09/17 11:32:30 .
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) 
(code 23) at main.c(1538) [generator=3.0.9]

If I don't tell it to follow the link:
  rsync -r 
behdadrsync AT cbe-win7amd64.che.wisc DOT edu::shadowdrwxr-xr-x           0 
2014/09/17 11:37:30 .
lrwxrwxrwx          54 2014/09/17 11:37:30 C

On the windows side:
dir c:\shadow

09/17/2014  09:27 AM   <SYMLINKD>     C 
[\\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolume....

I have use "chroot = no" in rsyncd.conf

I've also tried a variety of links related switches on the rsync client.

Googling "symlink has no referent: windows"
turns up a few other people with this problem

Anyone been able to solve this one?

Thanks
Russ Poyner

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