-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/14/2011 14:48, Mike Miller wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Scott Raun wrote: > >> I'm actually planning on using the cygwin rsync, yes, it's in a >> Windows environment. The exact paths are subject to change once I >> figure out how cygwin refers to them. >>>> >>>> rsync -tru e:\data_tree d:\data_tree >>>> rsync -tru d:\data_tree e:\data_tree > > > Regarding Cygwin, but not rsync... > > > On my Cygwin system, running on Windows XP, it can use the e:/ kind of > reference or /cygdrive/e/. > > So I think what you have above would work except that you need to use > forward slash instead of backslash (and use forward slashes in the paths > as well): > > rsync -tru e:/data_tree d:/data_tree > rsync -tru d:/data_tree e:/data_tree > > but this is probably the preferred method for Cygwin: > > rsync -tru /cygdrive/e/data_tree /cygdrive/d/data_tree > rsync -tru /cygdrive/d/data_tree /cygdrive/e/data_tree > > Mike You might want to see if unison is available. It handles this situation a tad better than rsync does. - -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJN+SC+AAoJEKFq1/n1feG2iGYH/i+MVSaZxx5t207G6oww8LP8 Yoyb2cS+HU7wPLl/EdcyX/esjsboDUYdFKW/WxOs2FpEG2S1odR3inUS/itK31uT bdhzja3ALF2tjNpi/rdtQBHOjAvoikjFbbSG9B02MWN1p+J6S97gXPH6lFJT7dGb XRM9Cil/Pcq+PbGp+RJFWiRdw3w7G3JVZqXKfIv5ui2FXVKgWDkeaCDHZdX8fQP5 IlTVivwr1ZgueB+OqqQ6FBVN5yFsvS40mtsW+3esyap5zdYUpKzS26LCTvTdCfg1 8Qx7KOOUYkvS7jzlLBOXaOL7TKJKnUGiaFeCrg7pLOpPsuhGaSeXwhKYAcI4ftg= =PEYA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----