I've tried both versions. The cygwin version had path too long errors, and I haven't been able to get the native version to act as the remote machine. I'll provide tracebacks next time I have the opportunity to run things.
Thanks for the quick response. - Austin On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Andrew Ferguson <[email protected]>wrote: > On Jan 14, 2009, at 6:32 PM, Austin Roberts wrote: > >> My dad and I are trying to set up an across the internet backup solution >> using rdiff-backup. I run Linux, he runs Windows. I set up Cygwin so I could >> run the rdiff-backup server over SSH, but ran into an error where path names >> were too long (I understand this to be a limitation of Cygwin). Backing up >> from Windows to Linux seems to work fine, using the distributed rdiff-backup >> executable. >> > > > What version of rdiff-backup did you try? Cygwin or native? There's some > code in 1.2.5 to try to continue in the face of 'path too long'-type errors. > > Also, if you still have any tracebacks from from your errors, feel free to > send them to me or the list. > > > thanks, > Andrew >
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