On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 05:07:15PM -0500, H. S. wrote: >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. > >Suggestions?
Why not just use mount to mount things similarly on the cygwin side and the linux side? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
