backing up a Windoz system.

[Jerry Feldman]

On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 23:44:39 -0400
Bob Gorman <bob at rsi.com> wrote:

> At 09:45 AM 7/18/2004, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> >Every night I back up my wife's Windows system by mounting it and
> >then rsync it to one of my drives. However, I continuously get the
> >"too many open files" message in the log.
> 
> As someone mentioned you could use rsync from the MS-Windows side.
> 
> I currently use rsync under Cygwin under MS-Windows to do something
> similar.
> 
> You could also get the MS-Windows Services for Unix and then
> export/mount the file system with NFS. The pusher man had free
> downloads recently.
Under cygwin, can you schedule tasks?

-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9
PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/attachments/20040719/850427b2/attachment.sig>