On 2017-12-07 07:08, Greg Harris wrote:
With the release of WSL in Win10, I thought I’d utilize the functionality of WSL to get rsync up and running for backing up the client. However, as I’ve been working on getting it going, it seems like WSL is like using a jackhammer when you need a light ball peen hammer. From what I can tell, it’s a full Ubuntu install that then requires separate updates and permissions maintenance. Essentially, it seems that WSL is just a VM with some fancy integration for file and resource sharing. Anybody done this? Am I missing something and making it harder than it should be?Thanks, Greg Harris
It's not really a VM, per se -- it's better to think of it as a sort of Cygwin but with the goal of running unmodified Linux binaries rather than providing GNU tools that work with Windows. On the plus side, this abstraction and ABI compatibility means that with WSL, you can copy over a binary from Ubuntu and it will run. On the minus side, this separates each WSL binary from Windows file semantics and baffles them with the simplest Windows filesystem interactions.
In short, it's probably a *terrible* choice for backing up Windows files, but it's probably a good choice if your goal is to back up WSL files.
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