Re: [rdiff-backup-users] native VSS (Shadow Copy) support

2010-04-06 Thread Randy Syring
Josh Nisly wrote: Two things: 1) The rdiff-backup project likely won't accept patches for features that are platform specific. There are exceptions for OS-specific filesystem metadata, but VSS doesn't fall into that category. Now that there is consideration of restarting development, any

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] native VSS (Shadow Copy) support

2010-04-06 Thread Greg Freemyer
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Randy Syring rsyr...@inteli-com.com wrote: Josh Nisly wrote: Two things: 1) The rdiff-backup project likely won't accept patches for features that are platform specific. There are exceptions for OS-specific filesystem metadata, but VSS doesn't fall into that

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] native VSS (Shadow Copy) support

2010-04-06 Thread Dominic Raferd
On 06/04/2010 17:03, Greg Freemyer wrote: On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Randy Syringrsyr...@inteli-com.com wrote: Josh Nisly wrote: Two things: 1) The rdiff-backup project likely won't accept patches for features that are platform specific. There are exceptions for OS-specific

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] native VSS (Shadow Copy) support

2010-04-05 Thread Josh Nisly
Two things: 1) The rdiff-backup project likely won't accept patches for features that are platform specific. There are exceptions for OS-specific filesystem metadata, but VSS doesn't fall into that category. 2) I've written a python extension module in C++ to implement VSS. Is that something