Re: special name for vss shadow copy device?

2009-02-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 25 19:20, Greg Freemyer wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: Greg Freemyer wrote: snip Time to experiment with Cygwin 1.7 I know the whole package is still considered test.  How stable is the actual dll(s).  

Re: special name for vss shadow copy device?

2009-02-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 26 10:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 25 19:20, Greg Freemyer wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: Greg Freemyer wrote: snip Time to experiment with Cygwin 1.7 I know the whole package is still

Re: special name for vss shadow copy device?

2009-02-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 24 15:42, Greg Freemyer wrote: All, I'm familiar with http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html But it only shows the \device\hardisk mappings. Are there also mapppings for the shadow devices. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Copy) ie.

Re: special name for vss shadow copy device?

2009-02-25 Thread Christian Franke
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=...

Re: special name for vss shadow copy device?

2009-02-25 Thread Greg Freemyer
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

Re: special name for vss shadow copy device?

2009-02-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Greg Freemyer wrote: snip 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. Difficult to say since this functionality isn't on a typical use path and no specific

Re: special name for vss shadow copy device?

2009-02-25 Thread Greg Freemyer
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: Greg Freemyer wrote: snip 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

Re: special name for vss shadow copy device?

2009-02-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Greg Freemyer wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: Greg Freemyer wrote: snip 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

Re: special name for vss shadow copy device?

2009-02-25 Thread Greg Freemyer
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: Greg Freemyer wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: Greg Freemyer wrote: snip Time to experiment with Cygwin 1.7 I know the whole

Re: special name for vss shadow copy device?

2009-02-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Greg Freemyer wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: Greg Freemyer wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: Greg Freemyer wrote: snip Time to experiment with Cygwin 1.7 I