Wayne Davison

Rsync uses slashes, not backslashes. If you must use backslashes, either specify `--old-args` or export RSYNC_OLD_ARGS=1 in your environment.

Windows is usually fine using slashes, so try switching `\\` to `/` in your args. Otherwise use old args as described above.

Then you want old args. Alternately try not doubling-up the backslashes. The newer rsync versions handle escaping shell-active chars for you.

Nope, just use --old-args like I said. Either option or environment var.

@qwelias Note that your bug report is overly abbreviated, but sounds like it matches what was already fixed in this bug.

This is something that we definitely need to improve a bit more, but it's rather complicated since the lack of symlink permission setting often depends on the destination filesystem, not...

It requires a complete rewrite of the utility using a totally new protocol stream. Something that I've been considering, but is not simple nor going to happen any time soon.

That is something that someone could write as a wrapping script (and indeed, is something that I have implemented before where my script copied directory trees in order of largest...

Thanks for tracking that down! I've committed a fix that increases the sum2 buffers on the calling side to be MAX_DIGEST_LEN.

Sounds like a different issue. I just made a commit that disables the extra checking for a local transfer, so try out the latest version (if you can). If you're...