On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Christian Franke <christian.fra...@t-online.de> wrote: > Greg Freemyer wrote: >> >> ... >> My personal desire is make a full dd copy of a snapshot onto a external >> drive. >> >> ie. dd if=/dev/sd-shadowcopy4 of=<my_image_file> >> >> > > With new Cygwin 1.7, the VSS volume image can be retrieved as follows: > > dd if='//?/GLOBALROOT/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy4' of=... > > But this does not work with Cygwin 1.5. > > > To access individual files, assign a drive letter X: to the VSS volume: > > http://blogs.msdn.com/adioltean/archive/2006/09/18/761515.aspx > http://blogs.msdn.com/adioltean/archive/2005/01/20/357836.aspx > > Then you can access the files via /cygdrive/x. This works with cygwin 1.5 > also. Only the WinXP explorer refuses to access the drive. > > See also related discussion here: > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-11/msg00070.html > > Hope this helps,
Wonderful links and information!! That is all I really needed, since I assume 1.5 is basically no longer being developed, I don't see a big need to create mappings for the shadow volumes. I do think it would be good to have the above links and documentation added to the special names section of the documentation. Time to experiment with Cygwin 1.7 I know the whole package is still considered test. How stable is the actual dll(s). Especially as relates to this type of functionality. Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
