Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Backing up from Linux to Windows?

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Jan 14, 2009, at 6:32 PM, Austin Roberts wrote:
> My dad and I are trying to set up an across the internet backup  
> solution using rdiff-backup. I run Linux, he runs Windows. I set up  
> Cygwin so I could run the rdiff-backup server over SSH, but ran into  
> an error where path names were too long (I understand this to be a  
> limitation of Cygwin). Backing up from Windows to Linux seems to  
> work fine, using the distributed rdiff-backup executable.


What version of rdiff-backup did you try? Cygwin or native? There's  
some code in 1.2.5 to try to continue in the face of 'path too long'- 
type errors.

Also, if you still have any tracebacks from from your errors, feel  
free to send them to me or the list.


thanks,
Andrew