As an aside, the Winexe solution is nice in that all backups are initiated
via your BackupPC server and do not require instances of cygwin to be
running as a service on your client, as it is activated on demand.
That being said, you will likely need to compile it from source in order to
use on Windows 8.1 clients (at least for a CentOS 6 host). Older versions
of winexe will still work with Windows 8 (and I don't have any 2012 boxes,
so can't verify there).
Kris Lou
k...@themusiclink.net
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 6:49 AM, <backu...@kosowsky.org> wrote:
> Michael Stowe wrote at about 08:16:09 -0500 on Monday, August 25, 2014:
> > > But I read that some other users use the Volume Shadow Copy Service
> > > which seems to be more reliable
> > > (
> http://urkomasse.blogspot.it/2012/10/using-backuppc-with-windows-server-2008.html
> ).
> >
> > The volume shadow copy service doesn't back up anything, it simply
> > provides a way of reading open files, which is otherwise semantically
> > prevented by Windows -- as well as supporting VSS providers which ensure
> > that data is in a consistent state, which can be more specialized for
> > applications like SQL Server.
>
> Beyond just allowing access to open files and ensuring consistent
> state, VSS also gives you a system point-in-time "snapshot" which is a
> helpful notion for backups and would be missed by rsync alone where
> files may be added/deleted/changed during the backup process itself.
>
> Perhaps part of the OP's confusion is that VSS is an integral part of
> many vendor backup solutions (including Microsoft's native backup
> application).
>
>
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