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 Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 8 15:06, James Chase wrote: > > >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 Why? Windows still works as u

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

Re: rsnapshot running with unix hosts

2010-09-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 8 14:27, James Chase wrote: > 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

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

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: rsnapshot 1.3.1-1 -- A local and remote filesystem snapshot utility

2009-09-30 Thread David M. Besonen
thank you! -- david -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: rsnapshot 1.3.1-1 -- A local and remote filesystem snapshot utility

2009-09-30 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://www.rsnapshot.org License : GPL Progam takes incremental snapshots of local and remote filesystems for any number of machines. rsnapshot makes extensive use of hard links. This is efficient only on NTFS in Cygwin. CHANGES SINCE LAST

Re: rsnapshot 1.3.1

2009-09-29 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
> rsnapshot is already part of the distro.  It is maintained by Jari > Aalto (bcc'ed). That will teach me for not checking the packages page... Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://emergedesktop.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http:/

Re: rsnapshot 1.3.1

2009-09-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:47:35PM -0700, David M. Besonen wrote: >On 9/29/2009 11:58 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>rsnapshot is already part of the distro. It is maintained by Jari >>Aalto (bcc'ed). > >thanks. > >where can i find a list of the cygwin package

Re: rsnapshot 1.3.1

2009-09-29 Thread David M. Besonen
On 9/29/2009 11:58 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > rsnapshot is already part of the distro. It is maintained > by Jari Aalto (bcc'ed). thanks. where can i find a list of the cygwin package maintainers? -- david -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/proble

Re: rsnapshot 1.3.1

2009-09-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 02:44:46PM -0400, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: >>>any chance rsnapshot 1.3.1 will be made available for cygwin anytime >>>soon? >> >>should i be inquiring elsewhere about this? > >If you would be willing to package and maintain it, I'm sur

Re: rsnapshot 1.3.1

2009-09-29 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
>> any chance rsnapshot 1.3.1 will be made available for >> cygwin anytime soon? > > should i be inquiring elsewhere about this? If you would be willing to package and maintain it, I'm sure the Cygwin developers would be glad to add it to the distro. Chris -

Re: rsnapshot 1.3.1

2009-09-29 Thread David M. Besonen
On 9/21/2009 12:24 PM, David M. Besonen wrote: > any chance rsnapshot 1.3.1 will be made available for > cygwin anytime soon? should i be inquiring elsewhere about this? thanks, david -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.c

rsnapshot 1.3.1

2009-09-21 Thread David M. Besonen
any chance rsnapshot 1.3.1 will be made available for cygwin anytime soon? thanks, david -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

Re: rsnapshot

2009-04-09 Thread David M. Besonen
On 4/8/2009 12:11 PM, David M. Besonen wrote: > is anyone using rsnapshot regularly? and if so, are there > any caveats when using it under cygwin? ping. sorry to be impatient. i'm pretty sure rsnapshot running under cygwin is the best solution for an immediate need i have. i do

rsnapshot

2009-04-08 Thread David M. Besonen
is anyone using rsnapshot regularly? and if so, are there any caveats when using it under cygwin? thanks, david -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: rsnapshot 1.3.0-1 -- A local and remote filesystem snapshot utility

2008-03-06 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://www.rsnapshot.org License : GPL Progam takes incremental snapshots of local and remote filesystems for any number of machines. rsnapshot makes extensive use of hard links. This is efficient only on NTFS in Cygwin. CHANGES SINCE LAST