rsync - Mar 2008 - Windows backup API in rsync port?

Windows systems have a great "feature" - even administrators can't
access files for which they don't have permissions (I'm not talking 
about files exclusively opened, which is something else).

To read files which are normally inaccessible because of insufficient 
permissions, Windows administrator can use Windows backup API. 
Unfortunately, rsync Windows port doesn't seem to use this feature.


There was a similar thread about it 4 years ago - did anything change in 
rsync from this time?

http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2004-February/thread.html#8677



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Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org

Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb:
> Windows systems have a great "feature" - even administrators
can't
> access files for which they don't have permissions (I'm not talking
> about files exclusively opened, which is something else).
> 
> To read files which are normally inaccessible because of insufficient 
> permissions, Windows administrator can use Windows backup API. 
> Unfortunately, rsync Windows port doesn't seem to use this feature.
> 
> 
> There was a similar thread about it 4 years ago - did anything change in 
> rsync from this time?
> 
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2004-February/thread.html#8677
I asked at Cygwin mailing list, and I'm glad to know that this issue is 
fixed in the recent snapshots of Cygwin: just replace your cygwin1.dll 
library with a recent snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ and 
rsync on Windows will be able to open the files where Administrator is 
not allowed to.

See the whole thread here:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-03/threads.html#00662

Great!


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Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org