Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync with VSS-support

[Krsnendu D. <krs...@or...>]

How do I use this? Do I just download the msi file and run it and then 
everything just works, or do I still have to download Cygwin etc.?

How can I test if it is working? i.e. backuping up outlook files that 
are in use etc.
Elias Penttilä wrote:

> Hi,
>
> this is something I did a couple of days ago for our company's use, I 
> thought it would maybe help someone else too.
>
> Basically this enables rsync to send files which are locked, e.g. 
> in-use Outlook .pst-files, the Windows registry and pretty much 
> everything else except EFS-encrypted files.
>
> Everything can be found here: http://iki.fi/~eliasp/rsync-vss
>
> The most useful thing is probably the rsync.msi-file which will 
> install rsync under C:\Program Files\rsync. A zip-file is also 
> provided which includes everything in the installer plus the installer 
> as a WiX-source file.
>
> NOTE that this only works on Windows XP currently, I tried it on 
> Server 2003, but for some reason it didn't work.
>
> There is a patch file which can be applied to the rsync 2.6.6 source 
> found in cygwin. It's pretty simple stuff actually. Note that it needs 
> a C++-compiler as I didn't have time to fiddle with the C-style COM. 
> There were some other issues too, like the linker not finding 
> CreateVssBackupComponents directly and fstat not working for files 
> opened with CreateFile. You have to install Microsoft's VSS SDK and 
> copy the include files and libraries to rsync-2.6.6/vss/inc and 
> rsync-2.6.6/vss/lib respectively.
>
>
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