[GRLUG] Backup of user machines

Gmail micah.rairdon at gmail.com
Sun Aug 17 21:29:31 EDT 2014


Would something like http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ work for you?

-tiberriver256

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> On Aug 17, 2014, at 18:20, "L. V. Lammert" <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> 
>> 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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