I currently rsync on a Linux host to copy things from Windows to my Linux box. But I can't copy files with long names.
I have tried DeltaCopy, cwrsync, and cygwin. From what I have found there all of these tools refuse to copy files when the length of the file becomes long, this seems to be somewhere around 255 characters.
This issue is addressed on the cwrsync forums here and it supposedly it may be fixed sometime in the future whenever cygwin 1.7 comes out and UTF8 is supported. There is even a test build here.
I am not particularly comfortable using the test build on a production system. I am hoping someone knows of another rsync option.
As an alternative to rsync do you know of another tool that I can copy a directory structure on Linux from a windows host that will not have problems with long or unusually named files? The important bit is that I need a tool that can easily work across an SSH tunnel. Some of the systems are beyond firewalls, and I believe SSH is the tunnel I will be allowed to use.
Best Answer
I may be missing the point but have you considered using Robocopy on Windows. It is similar to RSync however you can't schedule it from the application directly.
This can be overcome by writing a batch file for the copy and then creating a Scheduled Task. Robocopy is free and extremely robust. I often use it to copy files between Linux and Windows using Samba and the network, and the resume capability of Robocopy is really powerful.