Re: [BackupPC-users] Win10 rsync

[Greg Harris]

On Dec 7, 2017, at 12:42 PM, Michael Stowe 
> 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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Re: [BackupPC-users] Win10 rsync

[Michael Stowe]

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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[BackupPC-users] Win10 rsync

[Greg Harris]

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

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