I run a backup from Windows 7 machine to Mac machine running Mountain Lion using rsync that is packaged in DeltaCopy application. I can't use DeltaCopy interface because the destination is a mapped drive (Mac's samba drive).
So here is my setup: I have a folder in Mac that is the destination folder and I share this folder via Samba share. On windows machine, I map this samba share to a drive (let's say M:/)
I run rsync:
rsync -arv --delete "/cygdrive/C//origin/" "/cygdrive/M//mybackup/"
it runs fine except that all files on the destination are hidden. Anyone has an idea on what's happening here? I really appreciate any feedback. Thank you.
2 Answers
RSYNC does create a temp file, by default in the target directory and named .<FILE_NAME>.<RANDOM_STRING>. After copy file has renamed to original name.
After created file with . at the beginning of name, OS add HIDDEN-attribute for them. Then RSYNC renamed it , but HIDDEN-attribute saved.
To disable temporary-file creation use --inplace parameter for rsync
I seem to remember a bug in afp, I switched the target machines sharing type from AFP to SMB and it solved this issue.
