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Old 07-04-2004
CPU & Memory rsync problem - space character in filename
I have a freebsd box with a smb connection to a Windows server - I use rsync to copy specific directories, and files, between the two.

The problem is the Windows box has files with space characters in their filenames and rsync fails to copy these. Reading the documentation of rsync it appears it uses the space character as a delimiter.

Has anyone solved this problem? Another person suggested I take the output generated from this script and use awk to recursively call cp "filename with space" location - problem is I am new to Unix and have no idea how I would do this.

Any thoughts (and especially examples) would be greatly appreciated.

Tom
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Old 07-04-2004
Can you post the command you're running to rsync these files? (And I'm assuming you're using rsync on FreeBSD and not one on Cygwin on Windows or something, but if I'm wrong post that too). I personally haven't encountered this problem using rsync from one type of UNIX box to another, so, assuming you're not using some strange switch, I'm wondering if there's some other problem causing this.
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Old 07-04-2004
Thanks dkaplowitz for your reply, here is the command I am executing.

Code:
/usr/local/bin/rsync -rz --delete-excluded --delete-after --include=subdir/ --exclude-from=/mnt/hosting/website/utility/mirror/excludeAll_CO.txt /mnt/hosting/website/SAB/ /mnt/hosting/website/data/SAB/sub/

Cheers.
Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 12-10-2010 at 05:30 AM.. Reason: added code tags
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Old 09-24-2004
Try the archive mode (rsync -a) this should solve your problem.
Good luck
 
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