Re: Special files and Cygwin

2003-11-18 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 09:08:12AM -0800, Pier Paolo Glave wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use rsync to backup a linux filesystem to a windows server. I followed the hints that I found at http://www.tiarnan.phlegethon.org/rsyncntdoc.html to run rsync on windows, and it works quite well. The

Re: Special files and Cygwin

2003-11-18 Thread Lapo Luchini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pier Paolo Glave wrote: | The only problem I found is that windows is not able to backup | linux special files (/dev/*). I suggest to tar them up, in order to preserve full infos. If you avoid compression of the tar file or use gzip with the option

Special files and Cygwin

2003-11-14 Thread Pier Paolo Glave
Hi, I'm trying to use rsync to backup a linux filesystem to a windows server. I followed the hints that I found at http://www.tiarnan.phlegethon.org/rsyncntdoc.html to run rsync on windows, and it works quite well. The only problem I found is that windows is not able to backup linux special