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

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> "PET" == paul-erik torronen <iso-8859-1>
>>>>> wrote the following on Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:24:31 +0200

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

The case sensitivity and no :'s in files should be covered by the
--windows-mode option.  The 255 limit is really disappointing.  Even
if this is a significant limitation I have no plans to "fix" this on
the rdiff-backup end (via a lot of chdir()ing I suppose).

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

I gpg sign all my messages, so in theory you can check that they are
from me (or at least that they are from the same guy who sends you all
those other annoying gpg-signed messages).  They should come through
as multipart/signed with one text part, and one
application/pgp-signature part.  Hmm, but the mailing list seems to
add another layer, but that structure should still be in there.


-- 
Ben Escoto

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