Hi Les, thanks for your reply.
> On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 13:27 +0100, Víctor A. Rodríguez wrote: > > > have anyone tried to install BackupPC on a Widows box ? > > I mean nothing is said about it in the docs, nothing found in devel or user > > archives, so I tried ... I tried and failed !!! > > The real killer is that the pooled files need hardlinks to work in > the filesystem. NTFS does have a similar concept but I'm not sure > if they work exactly the same way and I don't think perl knows how > to make them even if they do. So, I don't think anyone has done > a windows version. True. Indeed and sadly true, I forgot about it. > If you really need it to run on a windows host > you might try installing Linux under VMware using the free server > version. Is what I was trying to avoid, but perhaps I'll end doing it (it's just a lab, BTW). -- Víctor A. Rodríguez (http://www.bit-man.com.ar) El bit Fantasma (Bit-Man) CaFe.pm - Perl Mongers Capital Federal (http://cafe.pm.org/) Probaste con Software Libre (http://www.bit-man.com.ar/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?AyudaCompu/SoftwareLibre ?? _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
