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I was looking to install Rsync on a win2k server, the document telling you how to do this (available at: http://samba.org/rsync/nt.html) is fairly out of date and has a couple of mistakes. An updated version of the "Rsync on NT" document is now available at: http://www.tiarnan.phlegethon.org/rsyncntdoc.html I think I've gotten rid of the mistakes, but if I've missed anything feel free to point them out. Thanks, your application got me out of a serious hole. Tiarn?n de Burca, Network Admin, 2003 Special Olympic World Summer Games. ****************************...

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. Wha...