I have a virtual ubuntu server running on my windows server. This server has 2 external hdd's attached, which are mounted in ubuntu.

Now I try to run rsync to sync a directory on my desktop and my windows server.

I do this as follows:

rsync -av --update [email protected]:/home/seagate/Syncfolder/Pictures/ /syncs/pictures

The /syncs/pictures is a symlink to /cygdrive/c/../pictures. All these symlinks work correctly, and the remote directory exists too.

Now when I run that rsync command above it does this:

created directory /syncs/pictures#015

This actually creates a directory named "pictures" in my /syncs/ folder. So not in the symlink. Next to the symlink:

$ ls

pictures pictures?

When I add a trailing slash to the destination:

rsync -av --update [email protected]:/home/seagate/Syncfolder/Pictures/ /syncs/pictures/

It creates a directory named "#015" (the weird dot) inside my actual Pictures folder on my tower!

I think it has something to do with encoding?

I wrote all the bash scripts in notepad++ with encoding to ANSI.