"H.S." wrote: > rsync: send_files failed to open "/cygdrive/c/Documents and > Settings/winuser/NTUSER.DAT": Device or resource busy (16)
That is your HKCU hive. It is opened by the system in exclusive mode, and no other process can read or write it. The purpose being that if you want to access the registry, you go through the registry API. For instance, each registry key can have an ACL, so it's possible to create a registry key that is only readable by a particular user. But if processes could just read the hive data on disk it would completely bypass that security. So you can't back up the registry that way, but that doesn't matter because there are much better ways. For example "reg export HKCU file.reg" and then backup file.reg. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
