Hi,

Peter Bloomfield wrote on 2009-05-01 16:56:45 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] Rsyncd 
and WinXP]:
> [...] backing up a WinXP machine over rync.

I take it that is actually missing a "d" as well as the "s"? ;-)

> [...]
>       Got fatal error during xfer (chdir failed)
>       Backup aborted (chdir failed)
> 
> [...] I then went and looked on the WinXP
> in the rsync.log file and I get the following message,
>       
>       2009/05/01 16:39:23 [4024] rsync: chdir 
> /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/f:/Alvina_PET/HR_Info failed
> 
> Has anyone else seen this, or can someone point me in the direction of a
> solution, thanks

I take it your rsyncd.conf contains a path specification
"f:/Alvina_PET/HR_Info". Apparently, rsyncd is interpreting
this as a relative path. You probably need to use something
like "/cygdrive/f/Alvina_PET/HR_Info" instead.

Hope that helps.

Regards,
Holger

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