Re: rsnapshot running with unix hosts

2010-09-08 Thread James Chase
Why? Windows still works as usual. Only applications explicitely asking for case-sensitivity, like Cygwin, will actually use it. Reading the below made me think this may create issues with applications already in use on the system and fundamentally alter the function of the OS. Also, reboot

Re: rsnapshot running with unix hosts

2010-09-08 Thread James Chase
You *did* read http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-casesensitive did you? Especially the part concerning the registry. Yes, I saw that but that's not an option for me at the moment. I suppose the heart of my question is: shouldn't mounting with posix=1 enable th

rsnapshot running with unix hosts

2010-09-08 Thread James Chase
Hi All: I have rsnapshot running on cygwin on Server 2003 and this seems to work fine except that I'm wondering what the best way to handle case-insensitivity is. I read through the cygwin mount information and caveats about files named and etc and tried mounting a folder posix=1 but I don't