[GRLUG] Backup of user machines

L. V. Lammert lvl at omnitec.net
Sun Aug 17 18:20:12 EDT 2014


On Sun, 17 Aug 2014, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

> If it is using Cygwin it doesn't much matter - the software runs on
> Cygwin, it only sorta runs on Windows.  rsync works just fine on Windows
> 7.
>
The point was to *avoid* installing a lot of tools, ..

> > will not get roped into debugging the crappy permission structure in Win7!
>
> Eh?  Windows 7 *fixed* a great deal of permissions/access issues;  it
> just happened there is/was a great deal of [poorly written] software
> that silently depended on things being broken.  That does not make
> Windows 7 broken.
>
Win7 is he only Windoze platform I have seen where rsync will not run due
to permissions, ..

	Lee


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