Re: special name for vss shadow copy device?

2009-02-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 26 10:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 25 19:20, Greg Freemyer wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) > > wrote: > > > Greg Freemyer wrote: > > > > > > > > >> Time to experiment with Cygwin 1.7 > > >> > > >> I know the whole package is still considered test.  H

Re: special name for vss shadow copy device?

2009-02-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 25 19:20, Greg Freemyer wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) > wrote: > > Greg Freemyer wrote: > > > > > >> Time to experiment with Cygwin 1.7 > >> > >> I know the whole package is still considered test.  How stable is the > >> actual dll(s).  Especially as relates

Re: special name for vss shadow copy device?

2009-02-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Greg Freemyer wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Greg Freemyer wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Greg Freemyer wrote: Time to experiment with Cygwin 1.7 I know the whole package is still considered test. How stable is the

Re: special name for vss shadow copy device?

2009-02-25 Thread Greg Freemyer
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Greg Freemyer wrote: >> >> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) >> wrote: >>> >>> Greg Freemyer wrote: >>> >>> Time to experiment with Cygwin 1.7 I know the whole package is still considered test.  How s

Re: special name for vss shadow copy device?

2009-02-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Greg Freemyer wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Greg Freemyer wrote: Time to experiment with Cygwin 1.7 I know the whole package is still considered test. How stable is the actual dll(s). Especially as relates to this type of functionality. Difficult to s

Re: special name for vss shadow copy device?

2009-02-25 Thread Greg Freemyer
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Greg Freemyer wrote: > > >> Time to experiment with Cygwin 1.7 >> >> I know the whole package is still considered test.  How stable is the >> actual dll(s).  Especially as relates to this type of functionality. > > Difficult to say sin

Re: special name for vss shadow copy device?

2009-02-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Greg Freemyer wrote: Time to experiment with Cygwin 1.7 I know the whole package is still considered test. How stable is the actual dll(s). Especially as relates to this type of functionality. Difficult to say since this functionality isn't on a typical use path and no specific efforts hav

Re: special name for vss shadow copy device?

2009-02-25 Thread Greg Freemyer
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Christian Franke wrote: > Greg Freemyer wrote: >> >> ... >> My personal desire is make a full dd copy of a snapshot onto a external >> drive. >> >> ie. dd if=/dev/sd-shadowcopy4 of= >> >> > > With new Cygwin 1.7, the VSS volume image can be retrieved as follows: >

Re: special name for vss shadow copy device?

2009-02-25 Thread Christian Franke
Greg Freemyer wrote: ... My personal desire is make a full dd copy of a snapshot onto a external drive. ie. dd if=/dev/sd-shadowcopy4 of= With new Cygwin 1.7, the VSS volume image can be retrieved as follows: dd if='//?/GLOBALROOT/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy4' of=... But this does no

Re: special name for vss shadow copy device?

2009-02-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 24 15:42, Greg Freemyer wrote: > All, > > I'm familiar with http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html > > But it only shows the \device\hardisk mappings. > > Are there also mapppings for the shadow devices. > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Copy) > > ie. > \Device\