Hi, I'm trying to use rsync to backup a linux filesystem to a windows server. I followed the hints that I found at http://www.tiarnan.phlegethon.org/rsyncntdoc.html to run rsync on windows, and it works quite well. The only problem I found is that windows is not able to backup linux special files (/dev/*). I don't know if the problem is in the way rsync has been compiled, or simply in the fact that mknod.exe is missing. What do you think about that? Has anyone tried it before? I could not find references on the mailing list archive or on the web. Thank you -- Pier Paolo Glave __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 09:08:12AM -0800, Pier Paolo Glave wrote:> Hi, > > I'm trying to use rsync to backup a linux filesystem > to a windows server. > I followed the hints that I found at > http://www.tiarnan.phlegethon.org/rsyncntdoc.html to > run rsync on windows, and it works quite well. > > The only problem I found is that windows is not able > to backup linux special files (/dev/*). > I don't know if the problem is in the way rsync has > been compiled, or simply in the fact that mknod.exe is > missing.Ultimately the problem is that Windows doesn't have special files. Not in the OS nor in the filesystems. The fact that there is no mknod.exe is irrelevant though indicative. UNIX/Linux and Windows have completely different semantics so there will be some loss of metadata going either direction. -- ________________________________________________________________ J.W. Schultz Pegasystems Technologies email address: jw@pegasys.ws Remember Cernan and Schmitt
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Pier Paolo Glave wrote: | The only problem I found is that windows is not able to backup | linux special files (/dev/*). I suggest to tar them up, in order to preserve full infos. If you avoid compression of the tar file or use gzip with the option that resets the dictionary more often, you can rsync them quite as well, AFAIK (never tried it). - -- Lapo 'Raist' Luchini lapo@lapo.it (PGP & X.509 keys available) http://www.lapo.it (ICQ UIN: 529796) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAj+5/u8ACgkQaJiCLMjyUvu0XgCg4l2oHNlxEHWzbF1SPEtC5dB0 3o4AnR6lDlwvNqRuwriUtqxC6YmfcMgf =6QZI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----