'date' and 'tail' are both very basic functions that are part of
'coreutils' that should be part of even the simplest cygwin
implementation. You don't need dateutils.
'cygpath' is part of the basic 'cygwin' package.
Just try the base cygwin install plus rsync and I would think everything should
Well, now I’ve gone and done it! This machine had the BackupPC CygWin that
Michael so generously bestowed upon us and I didn’t check before I installed
the general CygWin. This ought to be fun to untangle.
So, that does clear up a few things, so thanks. One bit of weirdness is that
“tail”
I may have been a little too literal in definition of 'base' - I meant
that you don't anything beyond what you need for generally running
BackupPC over cygwin (which of course includes rsync/ssh).
Greg Harris wrote at about 14:03:22 + on Wednesday, February 17, 2021:
> Jeff,
>
> These
Jeff,
These look like awesome scripts. Thanks so much for sharing! (Hrm, is
BackupPC headed towards a plugin extension set?) However, I’ve had little
exposure to CygWin. In the olden days, we’d grab the CygWin for BackupPC and
roll. However, your notes seem to indicate just installing a
