On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 09:08:12AM -0800, Pier Paolo Glave wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to use rsync to backup a linux filesystem > to a windows server. > I followed the hints that I found at > http://www.tiarnan.phlegethon.org/rsyncntdoc.html to > run rsync on windows, and it works quite well. > > The only problem I found is that windows is not able > to backup linux special files (/dev/*). > I don't know if the problem is in the way rsync has > been compiled, or simply in the fact that mknod.exe is > missing.
Ultimately the problem is that Windows doesn't have special files. Not in the OS nor in the filesystems. The fact that there is no mknod.exe is irrelevant though indicative. UNIX/Linux and Windows have completely different semantics so there will be some loss of metadata going either direction. -- ________________________________________________________________ J.W. Schultz Pegasystems Technologies email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remember Cernan and Schmitt -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html