Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies a

2009-11-10 Thread Matthias Meyer
Michael Stowe wrote: Michael Stowe wrote: Your scripts run within a normal user which is in admin group? My problem, what is inexplicable for me, is that the at command will work from a vista command box but not from a ssh-session. Even thought both use the same account. Did you have to

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies a

2009-11-09 Thread Michael Stowe
Matthias Meyer wrote at about 14:56:02 +0100 on Sunday, November 8, 2009: Hello Jeffrey, Did your script work in Vista too? I have not tried it under Vista, but I would like to get it to work there. One potential issue could be that shadow mounts (and vshadow.exe) might have a

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies a

2009-11-09 Thread Anand Gupta
Hi, Can you please post a download link for all files ? -- Thanks and Regards, Anand Gupta Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: If you are interested, I would be happy to send you updated versions of my scripts... --

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies a

2009-11-09 Thread Matthias Meyer
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: Matthias Meyer wrote at about 14:56:02 +0100 on Sunday, November 8, 2009: Hello Jeffrey, Did your script work in Vista too? I have not tried it under Vista, but I would like to get it to work there. One potential issue could be that shadow mounts (and

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies a

2009-11-09 Thread Matthias Meyer
Michael Stowe wrote: Matthias Meyer wrote at about 14:56:02 +0100 on Sunday, November 8, 2009: Hello Jeffrey, Did your script work in Vista too? I have not tried it under Vista, but I would like to get it to work there. One potential issue could be that shadow mounts (and

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies a

2009-11-09 Thread Michael Stowe
Michael Stowe wrote: Your scripts run within a normal user which is in admin group? My problem, what is inexplicable for me, is that the at command will work from a vista command box but not from a ssh-session. Even thought both use the same account. Did you have to rebase cygwin within

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies a

2009-11-08 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hello Jeffrey, Did your script work in Vista too? Within a ssh-session I try at 14:39 attrib in Vista but I get an access denied. If I try it from a vista command box it will work. In both, ssh-session as well as vista command box, I use the same user. Thanks Matthias -- Don't Panic

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies a

2009-11-08 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Matthias Meyer wrote at about 14:56:02 +0100 on Sunday, November 8, 2009: Hello Jeffrey, Did your script work in Vista too? I have not tried it under Vista, but I would like to get it to work there. One potential issue could be that shadow mounts (and vshadow.exe) might have a different

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies a

2009-11-02 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
hga wrote at about 13:37:38 -0500 on Sunday, November 1, 2009: It looks like SourceForge.net did a mass migration of pages in early August and they borked attached files such as gifs and these useful scripts (also, who can edit is restricted on the wiki). A fair amount of time with

[BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies a

2009-11-01 Thread hga
It looks like SourceForge.net did a mass migration of pages in early August and they borked attached files such as gifs and these useful scripts (also, who can edit is restricted on the wiki). A fair amount of time with Google failed to find copies; could someone post them to this list/forum

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

2009-04-04 Thread Anand Gupta
Hi Dave, Have you tried to use the script for multiple drives on the same pc ? Any luck on that part ? Thanks and Regards, Anand Gupta Original Message Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creatingshadow copies and launching rsyncd

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

2009-04-04 Thread David Lasker
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd Hi Dave, Have you tried to use the script for multiple drives on the same pc ? Any luck on that part ? Thanks and Regards, Anand Gupta Original Message

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

2009-04-04 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
for user discussion, questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd Getting this installed still seems a little advanced - I'm not sure where all the pieces go. I'm sure I'm not the only one who needs

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

2009-04-04 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 1:50 AM To: General list for user discussion, questions and support Cc: morto...@dgrmm.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd Hi Dave, Have you tried to use

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

2009-04-02 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
David Morton wrote at about 23:40:25 -0500 on Wednesday, April 1, 2009: Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: I guess the current comments assume that someone is reasonably familiar with cygwin/gnu/bash. Anyone can feel free to add more Well, no, that's not the problem - It's just that it wasn't

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

2009-04-02 Thread Chuck Peters
2009/4/2 Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org In general, your comments in fact have been very helpful in that you are pointing out details that I didn't realize were non-obvious or non-standard. For example, I wouldn't have remembered to think of ssh server as a requirement. So, feel

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

2009-04-02 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Chuck Peters wrote at about 10:12:40 -0400 on Thursday, April 2, 2009: 2009/4/2 Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org In general, your comments in fact have been very helpful in that you are pointing out details that I didn't realize were non-obvious or non-standard. For

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

2009-04-02 Thread David Lasker
automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd Chuck Peters wrote at about 10:12:40 -0400 on Thursday, April 2, 2009: 2009/4/2 Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org In general, your comments in fact have been very helpful in that you are pointing out details that I

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

2009-04-02 Thread David Lasker
list for user discussion, questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd Getting this installed still seems a little advanced - I'm not sure where all the pieces go. I'm sure I'm not the only one who needs a little

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

2009-04-02 Thread David Morton
Chuck Peters wrote: The subject of the thread is Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd. Perhaps someone could package it like cwrsync and add a GUI configuration to it, then it would be closer to fully automatic installation. And that brings up the question

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

2009-04-02 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck Peters wrote: 2009/4/2 Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org mailto:backu...@kosowsky.org In general, your comments in fact have been very helpful in that you are pointing out details that I didn't realize were non-obvious or

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

2009-04-02 Thread o...@jltechinc.com
We use WPKG http://wpkg.org/, which automatically handles, installs, updates and removal of software, as well as any other commands for creating shares, running netsh commands to set passwords, or add software to the Windows firewall, etc. There are many Silent Install working examples as

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

2009-04-02 Thread Chuck Peters
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Chuck Peters wrote at about 10:12:40 -0400 on Thursday, April 2, 2009:   First couple of lines:     # Shadowmountrsync   # Copyright Jeffrey J. Kosowsky December 2008   # Version 0.3.3 (April 2009)    

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

2009-04-02 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Chuck Peters wrote at about 23:25:06 -0400 on Thursday, April 2, 2009: On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Chuck Peters wrote at about 10:12:40 -0400 on Thursday, April 2, 2009:   First couple of lines:     # Shadowmountrsync  

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

2009-04-02 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
I'm a bit torn here. On the one hand, I want to encourage as broad usage as possible since I think it can be helpful to many people and it was not trivial (at least for me) to figure out the various 'recursion' tricks and hacks to make this all work on XP. On the other hand, I don't have the

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

2009-04-01 Thread David Morton
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: David Morton wrote at about 14:15:57 -0500 on Monday, March 30, 2009: David Lasker wrote: I was trying to figure out the best way to deploy VSS with BackupPC on my Windows XP PCs, and found this wonderful script. Thank you so much Jeffrey for sharing

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

2009-04-01 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
While not perfect, I believe that the script fairly well documents what you need to do -- just read through the comments at the head of the script and look through the Variables section to see what is defined and whether it matches what you have on your system. You can put the programs referenced

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

2009-04-01 Thread David Morton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: I guess the current comments assume that someone is reasonably familiar with cygwin/gnu/bash. Anyone can feel free to add more Well, no, that's not the problem - It's just that it wasn't listed as a pre-req. I wasn't

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

2009-03-30 Thread David Morton
David Lasker wrote: I was trying to figure out the best way to deploy VSS with BackupPC on my Windows XP PCs, and found this wonderful script. Thank you so much Jeffrey for sharing it! Is it possible to do VSS on XP Home? I have a location that I'd like to do VSS and getting them upgraded to

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

2009-03-30 Thread David Lasker
for wakeonlan to work in a reasonable manner. Dave -Original Message- From: David Morton [mailto:morto...@dgrmm.net] Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 12:16 PM To: General list for user discussion, questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

2009-03-30 Thread Craig Barratt
David writes: The short story is that you need to configure BackupPC to wake up only once per day, in order for wakeonlan to work in a reasonable manner. That should be fixed in 3.2.0beta0: * Moved call to NmbLookupFindHostCmd in BackupPC_dump to after the check of whether a backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

2009-03-30 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
David Morton wrote at about 14:15:57 -0500 on Monday, March 30, 2009: David Lasker wrote: I was trying to figure out the best way to deploy VSS with BackupPC on my Windows XP PCs, and found this wonderful script. Thank you so much Jeffrey for sharing it! Is it possible to do VSS on

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

2009-03-30 Thread David Morton
David Lasker wrote: The short story is that you need to configure BackupPC to wake up only once per day, in order for wakeonlan to work in a reasonable manner. That would be great for this particular system anyway, since I'd want it to only wake up at night.

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

2009-03-27 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd David Lasker wrote at about 15:21:11 -0700 on Thursday, March 26, 2009: I was trying to figure out the best way to deploy VSS with BackupPC on my Windows XP PCs, and found this wonderful script. Thank you so much

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

2009-03-26 Thread David Lasker
I was trying to figure out the best way to deploy VSS with BackupPC on my Windows XP PCs, and found this wonderful script. Thank you so much Jeffrey for sharing it! I ran into (and solved) a few issues when deploying version 0.3 of the script that I wanted to share, in the hope of making it

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

2009-03-26 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
David Lasker wrote at about 15:21:11 -0700 on Thursday, March 26, 2009: I was trying to figure out the best way to deploy VSS with BackupPC on my Windows XP PCs, and found this wonderful script. Thank you so much Jeffrey for sharing it! I ran into (and solved) a few issues when

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

2008-12-16 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Updated version attached below: Version 0.22 I think the routine is pretty finished now and it has more than enough functionality for my own uses, so I probably won't be making many changes in the near future unless I hear about some serious bugs or compelling feature requests: Here is the

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

2008-12-15 Thread Andreas Micklei
Am Sonntag, 14. Dezember 2008 schrieb Jeffrey J. Kosowsky: shadow copies Amazing what can be done with shell scripting on windows. I will have to integrate a new windows host into our BackupPC Server in the near future. So Thanks for sharing this! regards, Andreas Micklei --

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

2008-12-14 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Updated version attached below: Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 15:52:56 -0500 on Friday, December 12, 2008: The enclosed script (and a 1-line cmd.exe helper) cleanly and automatically sets up shadow copies, mounts them, and launches the rsync daemon without requiring any special