While not perfect, I believe that the script fairly well documents what you need to do -- just read through the comments at the head of the script and look through the Variables section to see what is defined and whether it matches what you have on your system.
You can put the programs referenced in the Variables section anywhere you want as long as they are in the default path. If the programs are not in your default, then you can use the full path name rather than the program name in the variables section of the script. The script is a BASH script and therefor requires bash along with a number of basic gnu routines such as grep, sed, date. These probably are all part of a base cygwin install (though you of course also need rsyncd) but I can't 100% guarantee that since I haven't tested it on a base install. I will add a couple of lines summarizing the above to the head of the script but to be honest beyond that I'm not sure how much more to add since it all depends on the skill of the user. I guess the current comments assume that someone is reasonably familiar with cygwin/gnu/bash. Anyone can feel free to add more documentation based on their personal installation experiences to the Wiki - personally, I wouldn't know where to start and don't have the time right now to do more. I am of course willing to answer specific questions via the email list. David Morton wrote at about 20:42:21 -0500 on Wednesday, April 1, 2009: > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > David Morton wrote at about 14:15:57 -0500 on Monday, March 30, 2009: > > > David Lasker wrote: > > > > I was trying to figure out the best way to deploy VSS with BackupPC > > on my > > > > Windows XP PCs, and found this wonderful script. Thank you so much > > Jeffrey > > > > for sharing it! > > > > > > Is it possible to do VSS on XP Home? I have a location that I'd like to > > > do VSS and getting them upgraded to something better has been/is going > > > to be a long process. > > > > > I use my script all the time on XP Home. > > > > > Getting this installed still seems a little advanced - I'm not sure x > where all the pieces go. I'm sure I'm not the only one who needs a > little more instruction. It seems to me that if this works well, it > should be the default way to handle windows - looking at the logs I see > that I'm currently always missing a few files due to locks. > > > I finally found the files on the wiki: > > http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net/User+Scripts+-+Client+-+Windows+VSS > > and vshadow tools I downloaded from: > > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0b4f56e4-0ccc-4626-826a-ed2c4c95c871&displaylang=en > > The Volume Shadow Copy Service SDK 7.2 installs in: > > c:\Program Files\Microsoft\VSSSDK72 > (with various copies of vshadow.exe sprinkled around) > > and dosdev.exe from (as mentioned in the source): > > http://www.ltr-data.se/files/dosdev.zip > > What else is needed? Is a full cygwin install needed? Where do we put > these files? > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/