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Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc cygwin rsync fails to write files to C drive.

2009-01-27 14:31:24
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc cygwin rsync fails to write files to C drive.
From: Rob Owens <rowens AT ptd DOT net>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:28:47 -0500
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 01:01:41PM -0500, vnetrix wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> not sure if anyone has come across this before.  I have a full backup of a 
> windows 2003 X86_64 R2 server.  This includes an NT system state job to 
> capture the parts the backuppc cannot backup nativly.
> 
> The backup has a C$ share and a D$ share contained in it.
> I'm using cygwin with rsync version 2.6.9 on the windows server running as an 
> rsyncd system service.
> 
> I can restore the D$ share without any problems.  But when I try and restore 
> the C$ share to the C: drive of a rebuilt server.  Backuppc says it has 
> restored the files but when I check on the hard drive several files under 
> C:\windows\system32\drivers have not been restored.
> 
> This means that when I restore the system state and reboot I get 
> unrecoverable boot errors. So I have to rebuild the server from scratch.
> 
> I have managed to restore some of the driver files to the root of the D: 
> drive.  But when I try and restore them with the full path to the D$ drive I 
> get an error saying mkdir failed.
> 
Make sure that the rsync daemon is running as a user who has permission to 
create the files/directories you are trying to restore.

-Rob

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