After downloading this and trying it out, I noticed that these errors went
away:

Remote[1]: rsync: readlink "..." (in C) failed: File name too long (91)

So whatever version of rsync/cygwin that is, is well worth running for
that reason alone.  With that, I now have a complete copy of 100% of the
files on a box, and have done a few successful bare metal restores.

I've also had to pluck a few registry keys out of backups, and am assured
that I always have the last sane registry.

>> Jacob, could you make your specific rsync.exe + cygwin.dll available for
>> testing?  I have no experience compiling things in Windows and would
>> most likely screw it up somehow.
>
> Here is a zip of the folder I use for each XP host:
> http://www.itfresno.com/exe/backuppc.zip
>
> Minus the secrets file...
>
> This is based on the article here:
> http://www.goodjobsucking.com/?p=62
>
> A few things were modified on both the backuppc machine as well as the
> scripts, but only for my environment.
>
> Please keep in mind that simple file sharing has to be turned off... a
> snag
> which cost me a lot in trouble shooting (not a problem if you're on a
> domain, this client is 80+ units on peer to peer)
>
> If you're not using the VSS deal, just copy the rsync and cygwin files you
> need.
>
> As a side note, this is running on a CentOS 5.3 virtual machine using
> XenServer. I hope one day to be able to rsync the image of the machine
> periodically and reinstate it somehow. For now it's just regular image
> exports for backing up the pool/entire os.


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