Hi,
I have installed Cygwin on a Windows XP computer to get rsync and ssh running so that I can backup my important data on a Linux computer on my home LAN. The idea is to use rsync to make rolling backups of my Windows data automatically, say, once or twice a day and to retain last N backups (N most probably going to be 10~20).
But the problem I had not foreseen is that I dual boot this Windows machine between Windows XP and Debian. How should I gracefully let the rsync server know if this computer is running Linux or XP?
I know that if the computer is running Linux, the rsync server will never find /cygdrive/... folders and will just quite with an error. But this is not 'clean', it will result in mails to the rsync server root about the error.
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