Leen Besselink wrote at about 12:19:27 +0200 on Saturday, June 6, 2009:
> > Hi, have to say that this is an ever wanted great tool, btw, i really
> > thank you for that, as this might help a lot even out off the backuppc
> > context !
> >
>
> I'm not a backuppc user myself. I was trying to help myself. :-)
>
> > I'm interested in it. As you say it works normaly as an rsync server, but
> > with the backuppc rsync implementation, nope.
> >
>
> Have you tested with the Windows XP version I created with backuppc ?
>
> Because I don't have a backuppc setup here, judging by what you said, you do.
>
> But I have tested with an old version of rsync, which just supports protocol
> 28 and it works.
>
> I have a feeling backuppc might work too, you'll lose the extra efficiency
> of 'incremental filelist', but you'll gain backup of open files.
>
> > Hope someone who better knows backuppc will help telling us if this would
> > be possible to run with backuppc rsyncd Xfer method.
> > I'm not expert enough to help on developpment purpose (just good enough to
> > compile and try :p ).
> >
>
> Actually, what I've done isn't really all that hard, most of the work was
> already done by Elias, I'm not sure why no one took that code
> and kept porting it to new versions.
>
> My guess is, because at the time you also had to patch cygwin, if I
> understand correctly, but that's not needed anymore. Which possible
> makes it a lot easier.
Is that the patch that allows you to access shadow mounts directly
without having to use a kludge like dosdev.exe to assign a drive
letter to them?
>
> > I'm sure a lot of people will be intrested in getting this wonderfull
> > stuff working with backuppc (rsync with VSS inside) as it'll
> > allow us to backup all the (open) files as most of Windows backup
> > softwares do.
> >
>
> Someone still needs to test with different versions of Windows (Vista, 7,
> 2008).
>
> > Thank you for your answer ;)
> >
> > Alexandre
>
>
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