rsync - Feb 2004 - Please help : Strange 'file has vanished' behaviour with rsync on windows.

Please help : Strange 'file has vanished' behaviour with rsync on
windows.
I need to run rsync on windows and sync shares thru UNC names.
When I try :
rsync -e ssh -av //mypc1/myshare1/dir1/* //mypc1/myshare1/dir2/.
rsync does a copy but says "file has vanished" for every file.
Then when I run: 
rsync -e ssh -av --dry-run //mypc1/myshare1/dir1/* //mypc1/myshare1/dir2/.
it shows me all the files-- indicating that all are out of sync.

I need to encode logic to transfer only when needed, and this is not helping.

On the other hand, just to test, if I did a copy without going to network,
rsync -e ssh -av /cygdrive/c/myshare1/dir1/* /cygdrive/c/myshare1/dir2/.
and then run:
rsync -e ssh -av --dry-run //mypc1/myshare1/dir1/* //mypc1/myshare1/dir2/.
it shows me no files --indicating that the dirs are in sync.

I would have to use UNCs to copy.
Is there a bug that I am encountering?
How do I make things work?

Best regards

On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 03:57:36PM -0800, helpneeded@somewhere.com
wrote:
> rsync -e ssh -av //mypc1/myshare1/dir1/* //mypc1/myshare1/dir2/.
Rsync does not support giving special meaning to multiple adjacent
slashes -- they are treated as a single slash.  Thus, rsync will try
to copy /mypc1/myshare1/dir/FOO and fail.

..wayne..

You should be able to temporarily map your UNC to a drivespec and then 
use rsync with the mapped drivespec rather than telling it to use the 
UNC directly.  That would work around your issue effectively.  You'll 
want to use the path /cygdrive under Cygwin to access your mapped 
drivespec.  Something like this:

net use z: \\mypc1\myshare1
rsync -e ssh -av /cygdrive/z/dir1/* /cygdrive/z/dir2/

Hope that helps...

Jim Salter
> Please help : Strange 'file has vanished' behaviour with rsync on
windows.
> I need to run rsync on windows and sync shares thru UNC names.
> When I try :
> rsync -e ssh -av //mypc1/myshare1/dir1/* //mypc1/myshare1/dir2/.
> rsync does a copy but says "file has vanished" for every file.
> Then when I run: 
> rsync -e ssh -av --dry-run //mypc1/myshare1/dir1/* //mypc1/myshare1/dir2/.
> it shows me all the files-- indicating that all are out of sync.
> 
> I need to encode logic to transfer only when needed, and this is not
helping.
> 
> On the other hand, just to test, if I did a copy without going to network,
> rsync -e ssh -av /cygdrive/c/myshare1/dir1/* /cygdrive/c/myshare1/dir2/.
> and then run:
> rsync -e ssh -av --dry-run //mypc1/myshare1/dir1/* //mypc1/myshare1/dir2/.
> it shows me no files --indicating that the dirs are in sync.
> 
> I would have to use UNCs to copy.
> Is there a bug that I am encountering?
> How do I make things work?
> 
> Best regards

Actually I would want to use ssh and do copy between two remote servers from my
machine.
But the following did not work:
 rsync -e ssh -av user@mypc1:/myshare1/dir1 user@mypc2:/myshare2/dir2

I was not able to successfully rsync with both, source and destination, as
remote locations.
I would appreciate if you can tell me whether there is a limitation in rsync or
am I doing something wrong?

regards,