Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Leen Besselink wrote at about 12:19:27 +0200 on Saturday, June 6, 2009: > > > Hi, have to say that this is an ever wanted great tool, btw, i really > thank you for that, as this might help a lot even out off the backuppc > context ! > > > > > > > I'm not a backuppc user myself. I was trying to help myself. :-) > > > > > I'm interested in it. As you say it works normaly as an rsync server, > but with the backuppc rsync implementation, nope. > > > > > > > Have you tested with the Windows XP version I created with backuppc ? > > > > Because I don't have a backuppc setup here, judging by what you said, you > do. > > > > But I have tested with an old version of rsync, which just supports > protocol 28 and it works. > > > > I have a feeling backuppc might work too, you'll lose the extra efficiency > of 'incremental filelist', but you'll gain backup of open files. > > > > > Hope someone who better knows backuppc will help telling us if this > would be possible to run with backuppc rsyncd Xfer method. > > > I'm not expert enough to help on developpment purpose (just good enough > to compile and try :p ). > > > > > > > Actually, what I've done isn't really all that hard, most of the work was > already done by Elias, I'm not sure why no one took that code > > and kept porting it to new versions. > > > > My guess is, because at the time you also had to patch cygwin, if I > understand correctly, but that's not needed anymore. Which possible > > makes it a lot easier. > > Is that the patch that allows you to access shadow mounts directly > without having to use a kludge like dosdev.exe to assign a drive > letter to them? >
No, the patch against cygwin allows some kind of translation or access to between /cygdrive/c/whatever and c:\whatever, if I'm not mistaken. But I don't really know, because I don't have to deal with it, because it's part of standard cygwin these days. ;-) > > > > > I'm sure a lot of people will be intrested in getting this wonderfull > stuff working with backuppc (rsync with VSS inside) as it'll > > > allow us to backup all the (open) files as most of Windows backup > softwares do. > > > > > > > Someone still needs to test with different versions of Windows (Vista, 7, > 2008). > > > > > Thank you for your answer ;) > > > > > > Alexandre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ 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/