Craig Barratt wrote:
I'm thinking more along the lines of those files that someone wanted backed up being put in a file for a scheduled backup rather than ssh'ing in and getting them directly.Watch out for pagefile.sys (i think!)... it's won't copy. (let me know about any other's)
Most important files won't copy. The registry files are locked and can't be read by rsync/cygin (nor are they served by smb). Similarly, the outlook.pst file used by Outlook (which contains all the email, attachments, calendar and address book info of an outlook user) is locked whenever outlook is open (which is most of the time). Exchange databases, SQL databases will be locked too. Any file open by a windows app is likely locked too. So you can get 99% of the files, but the 1% you miss are the most critical.Now, can you think of a way to sync the win 2000 OS? (the WHOLE flippin' system) so that if it were to go down one could restore the full installation
(bootstraps, bootloader, ect!!?) by means of the rsync'ed "backup".
please? thank you. ;-)
I wish this was possible, but I don't know how to do this. Commercial products use an OFM (open file manager) to allow locked files to be accessed. Products are sold by companies like St. Bernard or Columbia Data Products. Apparently Veritas and Legato bundle this product with their commercial backup products. See for example http://www.stbernard.com/products/docs/ofm_whitepaperV8.pdf What we need is an open source OFM that is compatible with rsync. Then bare-metal WinXX recovery would be possible. Craig
Steve Mallett
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