BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] vista backup question

2009-01-08 00:34:30
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] vista backup question
From: Cody Dunne <cdunne AT cs.umd DOT edu>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:32:00 +0800
Hi Mark,

Mark Maciolek wrote:
> hi,
> 
> Running 3.1.0 on CentOS 5.2 with 40 clients so far mostly Linux systems. 
> Added my first Vista system today. Used Deltacopy to install rsync.
> 
> The backup worked but still had 13446 error transfer, mainly file name 
> too long.
> 
> Remote[1]: rsync: readlink_stat("All Users/Application Data/Application 
> Data/Application Data/Application Data/Application Data/Application 
> Data/Application Data/Application Data/Application Data/...
> 
> 
> Basically it is repeating the Application Data over and over again.
> 
> Has anyone seen this issue and know how to prevent it?
> 
> Mark

That's because rsync is following the Vista junction points for the old 
XP locations of things. See 
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~cdunne/projs/backuppc_guide.html#Xfer
for the excludes you need to pass to rsync.

Cody

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