RE: [rdiff-backup-users] Still thinking about windows

[Törrönen, Paul-Erik]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Freemyer [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: 2003-03-11 00:17
> Subject: [rdiff-backup-users] Still thinking about windows

> Has anyone tried to get rdiff-backup to deploy into a Windows 
> env. without python?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Freemyer [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: 2003-03-11 00:17
> To: rdiff-backup-users
> Subject: [rdiff-backup-users] Still thinking about windows
> 
> 
> Ben / All,
> 
> Has anyone tried to get rdiff-backup to deploy into a Windows 
> env. without python?
> I don't know if that is good tool, or if maybe there is a better one?

Just a word of warning.

I got the rdiff-backup to work on Cygwin + Windows but ran into
OS-specific problems which got me to change the backup-system
to a Linux. Specifically the differences/deficiencies in NTFS
which does not really support case-sensitivity, different sets
of special characters in filenames. Also it seems that Cygwin
does not support path+filenames longer than 255 characters.

One reason why I ran into these problems were that I did
an almost full backup of the remote-host. If you only
plan to backup a small subset of the system then it should
work a ok.

Oh yes, I used the rdiff-0.11.0 on Cygwin.

BTW Ben: For some strange reason, your messages are all
received as mail-attachments with the text included as
a text-file. The reason is that your mailtype is received
as multipart-mixed. Is this configured in your end, or
does our Exchange munge your messages (wouldn't be suprised).

Poltsi

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