On Dec 7, 2017, at 12:42 PM, Michael Stowe
<michael.st...@member.mensa.org<mailto:michael.st...@member.mensa.org>> wrote:
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.
Thanks for the confirmation Michael. I think I’ll retreat back to the tried
and true.
Thanks,
Greg Harris
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