Christopher Faylor wrote:
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
Even if I do that on the machine to be backed up, I still need to know
what OS is running. This is for the situation in which I want to
maintain different backups of Linux and of Windows data. To do this,
rsync must now what it is backing up so that it does not overwrite
previous backups of one OS with the new ones of the other.
Or I misunderstood your post.
->HS
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