Re: cygwin to backup Windows data

2003-08-14 Thread Reini Urban
Robert Citek schrieb: I would imagine this rsync-based backup scheme would involve a number of different programs: cygwin itself, crond, ssh, ps, and bash at a minimum in addition to rsync. That's a lot of different programs. I'm beginning to think a non-Cygwin solution may be their better fit and

RE: cygwin to backup Windows data

2003-08-06 Thread Vince Hoffman
> > I'm beginning to think a non-Cygwin solution may be their > better fit and > > may be the one they are leaning towards. > > rsync compiles fine without cygwin. >http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/nt.html > Just thought i should correct this. from that link "1. You will need two files, rs

Re: cygwin to backup Windows data

2003-08-06 Thread Robert Citek
Hello Brian, Thanks for the feedback. At 06:34 PM 8/4/2003 -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >This is too generic a question. Cygwin is just a set of libraries that >provide a Unix-like environment to programs... the behavior you describe >would depend entirely on how those programs are written. Wit

Re: cygwin to backup Windows data

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 06:34:24PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >Robert Citek wrote: >>A chemist friend of mine at the FDA has some questions about Cygwin and >>how it interacts with Windows. Below is his e-mail message to me which >>he asked to forward to the list if I felt it would help. I have

Re: cygwin to backup Windows data

2003-08-04 Thread Brian Dessent
Robert Citek wrote: > A chemist friend of mine at the FDA has some questions about Cygwin and how > it interacts with Windows. Below is his e-mail message to me which he > asked to forward to the list if I felt it would help. I have some > questions of my own to ask him, but thought I would put