On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 01:04 -0700, Tony Baechler wrote:
Just a brief note to tell you that at least for me I get permission problems with the Cygwin port of rsync. It works fine but always sets the date to the system date. I know you can use the archive option to prevent that but all that does is generate an error and still scrambles the original file dates.
The problem is your Windows filesystem, which doesn't have the proper metadata in the filesystem inodes to store those attributes. Best to just set up a dedicated BSD or Linux backup/mirror machine and rsync from there, and then share that data across to your Windows machine(s) with Samba. That's pretty much what I do here, but I have a LOT of mirrors loaded up, so its eating an enormous amount of disk space (Wikipedia, CPAN, LDP, Gutenberg, Debian ports, BSD, about 500 Linux/BSD ISO images, system backups and so on). Fun stuff.