On Thursday, September 03, 2015 12:23 AM Jason Pyeron wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Eric Blake >> Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2015 6:06 PM >> >> On 09/02/2015 03:57 PM, Clint Olsen wrote: >> >> > I'm also interested in generating images to preserve the >> entire disk. >> > What I'm wondering is whether doing this on a live system through >> > Cygwin would produce a safe, bootable disk image or if the the APIs >> > that Cygwin has to use or having the disk mounted would make this >> > unreliable? ><snip> don't do it with out snapshots... </snip> >> There are various solutions that CAN capture an accurate >> point-in-time disk snapshot. > >For cygwin/Windows use the Volume Shadow Service (VSS). I have used (XP) >cygwin dd and rsync to take (clone) images from the VSS managed drive. >
Could you elaborate a little? How does this VSS thing work? I am always confused with Windows disk management when it isn't a single disk. Once I can use dd and rsync I am fine. Thanks, Michael -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple