Alex wrote at about 10:04:12 -0400 on Tuesday, June 23, 2009:
 > 
 > Hello,
 > back again, just still experimenting this solution, everything is ok while 
 > reading.
 > 
 > But, i'm used to restore data on Windows PC using the chmod command 
 > "--chmod=Dugo+rwx,Fugo+rwx" to allow user to read files.
 > 
 > Because rsync runs as daemon under system account, writen files are not 
 > readable, so i use the chmod.
 > 
 > This work great with the "normal" rsync.exe binary, but with the one using 
 > VSS (wich is perfect for backup) the chmod doesn't work.
 > 
 > I think there's something to do with the fact that VSS is active by default, 
 > and then, when writing data, it first write to VSS and then sync to drive.
 > In this case, chmod doesn't work, and restored file is not readable.

Are you sure? At least on Win XP, VSS is read-only.
If what you say is true, I would think that either chmod is not
properly implemented in the VSS version of rsync or there is a
permissions issue whereby the Windows side of rsync is running under a
user that doesn't have permission to execute the chmod.

 > So, may you help ? I think getting the ability to disable VSS using flag 
 > like "--novss" could be great for restoration purposes.

Not sure how you would add a new flag on the Linux side without
rewriting the Linux version of rsync too.

 > 
 > Hope you understand what i mean, et maybe you got an idea. I use rsync as a 
 > deamon using deltacopy on the windows side.
 > 
 > Thank you for any help/idea/new version :p ....

A temporary situation would be to use the normal (e.g., cygwin)
version of rsync for restores and only use the VSS version for backups.

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