re[2]: [rdiff-backup-users] Still thinking about windows

[Greg Freemyer]

Thanks for the warnings.

I think most of them were related to having NTFS as the backup target, right?

I want to backup Win2K ms-sql servers to a Linux box (Suse) running XFS as the 
FS.

Do you think that should work smoothly?

PS: I hope to build up a test win2k server this afternoon.  I can then test the 
process with a small DB.

Greg
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Greg Freemyer

 >>  > -----Original Message-----
 >>  > From: Greg Freemyer [mailto:address@hidden 
 >>  > Sent: 2003-03-11 00:17
 >>  > Subject: [rdiff-backup-users] Still thinking about windows

 >>  > Has anyone tried to get rdiff-backup to deploy into a Windows 
 >>  > env. without python?

 >>  > -----Original Message-----
 >>  > From: Greg Freemyer [mailto:address@hidden 
 >>  > Sent: 2003-03-11 00:17
 >>  > To: rdiff-backup-users
 >>  > Subject: [rdiff-backup-users] Still thinking about windows
 >>  > 
 >>  > 
 >>  > Ben / All,
 >>  > 
 >>  > Has anyone tried to get rdiff-backup to deploy into a Windows 
 >>  > env. without python?
 >>  > I don't know if that is good tool, or if maybe there is a better one?

 >>  Just a word of warning.

 >>  I got the rdiff-backup to work on Cygwin + Windows but ran into
 >>  OS-specific problems which got me to change the backup-system
 >>  to a Linux. Specifically the differences/deficiencies in NTFS
 >>  which does not really support case-sensitivity, different sets
 >>  of special characters in filenames. Also it seems that Cygwin
 >>  does not support path+filenames longer than 255 characters.

 >>  One reason why I ran into these problems were that I did
 >>  an almost full backup of the remote-host. If you only
 >>  plan to backup a small subset of the system then it should
 >>  work a ok.

 >>  Oh yes, I used the rdiff-0.11.0 on Cygwin.

 >>  BTW Ben: For some strange reason, your messages are all
 >>  received as mail-attachments with the text included as
 >>  a text-file. The reason is that your mailtype is received
 >>  as multipart-mixed. Is this configured in your end, or
 >>  does our Exchange munge your messages (wouldn't be suprised).

 >>  Poltsi

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