Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> 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?
> 

No, the patch against cygwin allows some kind of translation or access to 
between /cygdrive/c/whatever and c:\whatever, if I'm not mistaken.

But I don't really know, because I don't have to deal with it, because it's 
part of standard cygwin these days. ;-)

>  > 
>  > > 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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