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? > > > 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/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/
