Re: [rdiff-backup-users] win32 success! and one little problem :)

[Greg Freemyer]

David,

Great work.  I assume you are saying that you have a pure win32 version
working.  ie. No use of the cygwin dll.

That is great.

A couple questions:

Are you using a native win32 /bin/sh, or a cygwin one?

What python are you using (win32 or cygwin)?

Do you need the cygwin.dll installed at all on the installation
computer?

What is the status of backing up:
   Large files (over 2 GB used to be a problem in cygwin)

   ACLs  (Access Control Lists)

   Open files  (Most commercial packages use Open File Manager from St.
Bernard to make this work.  It can be configured for random backup
programs, but I have never tried to configure it before.) 
   
Congratulations on your success.  I tried a get pure win32 version about
a year ago and gave up, so I know it was not a trivial effort.

BTW: it would be great if you could put the above info on the wiki.

Greg
-- 
Greg Freemyer

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 01:49, David Kempe wrote:
> Hi People,
> I have finally got rdiff-backup to work nicely and have packaged it up into
> a windows installer file.
> it comes to a single 2.3meg setup.exe.
> I can supply on request if anyone needs it.
> its 0.13.3 because of windows issues, so you need a working 13.3 server
> first.
> 
> only problem is I have to use a batch file like this to run it:
> -------
> mkdir %systemdrive%\bin
> copy %systemdrive%\dbglobal\backup\bin\sh.exe %systemdrive%\bin\
> python2.3.exe
> %systemdrive%\DBGlobal\backup\rdiff-backup -v6 --print-statistics --remote-s
> chema 'plink -C -i sloth.PPK %%s rdiff-backup --server' %1 %2
> del %systemdrive%\bin\sh.exe
> rmdir %systemdrive%\bin
> 
> ------
> 
> as you can see /bin/sh.exe needs to be in the root of c: for it to work. it
> creates it and deletes it afterwards, which is fine but not really great if
> you already have a nice c:\bin\sh.exe you like.
> so, does anyone know how to pass to rdiff-backup a different location for
> /bin/sh ?
> I need to put it in a subdirectory where I can control would be nice. A
> system variable would be even better... ie set SH-SHELL=c:\backup\bin\sh or
> something.
> I am pretty stuck on this point.
> but as for the rest of it, I am pretty happy with windows-> linux backups
> for 0.13.3.
> if anyone else wants to test it out on different platforms I can supply the
> .exe on request.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David Kempe
> 
> 
> 
> 
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