On 2015-12-04 15:39, Timothy J Massey wrote: > Michael Stowe <[email protected]> wrote on 12/04/2015 > 04:07:34 PM: > >> I do use rsync, and winexe to handle shadow copies so I don't have > to >> worry about open files and such. And I put together an installer >> package with all the pieces. > > Funny you should mention that... > > I really like Michael's installer package. It's very handy. Except > for two things: > > = It only supports a single drive (As in just C: and I always have a > C: and D: for servers). That's a fairly tricky hurdle to overcome, > and I do have servers where I only *need* to back up one drive, so I > use it there. > > = But the bigger deal is that the installer won't work on Windows > Server 2012 [R2]. The installer can't identify the version of VSS it > needs and will fail rather than use the 2008 one. I looked at > updating the installer, but my installer-scripting-fu is weak and I > wasn't able to accomplish it. > > I've been told that it's possible to take what Michael's installer > does and actually do it by hand but I haven't had time to dig into > that. If anyone has a walk-through it would be *much* appreciated: > I'd love to be able to take advantage of VSS on the 2012 servers I > have where I only need to back up a single drive. > > Anyway, just thought I'd take the opportunity to thank Michael for his > very useful tool and maybe beg a little for an update... :) > > Tim Massey
I'm *pretty* sure both these things are fixed -- I took a quick look at the code on github and it looks like it'll handle 7 drives in the scripts and at least it thinks it detects 2012 (I'm pretty sure I tested this, but I could be easily convinced it doesn't work if somebody happens to know better.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Go from Idea to Many App Stores Faster with Intel(R) XDK Give your users amazing mobile app experiences with Intel(R) XDK. Use one codebase in this all-in-one HTML5 development environment. Design, debug & build mobile apps & 2D/3D high-impact games for multiple OSs. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=254741911&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
