From: kevin o. <ko...@po...> - 2004-10-28 16:10:58
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Hello Daniel Pittman, I don't quite understand what you mean a unix representation of the directory structure.. directory structure is the same.. now if they are used to going to "My Documents" to get to their c:\documents and settings\username\my documents.. but that is same if they go to c:\... Best regards, ======= At 2004-10-27, 00:16:54 you wrote: ======= >On 27 Oct 2004, sanalkumar siva wrote: >> We are planning to integrate BackupPC software in our home gateway >> device. But some people expressed the concern over the need for Folder >> Sharing in the WinXX PCs. >> >> Is there any option in backupPC to avoid the Folder Sharing? It will be >> very helpful if somebody suggest any alternative also. > >You could offer an "installer" that put ssh/rsync or rsyncd on the >Windows machines with a nice wrapper around it, and call it the >"BackupPC backup client agent." > >Alternately, write a Windows program that can ship a tar format file >over a TCP/IP socket and use that as above. That would need a minor >change to BackupPC to call out to it as the client command, but would >remove the need to install (part of) Cygwin or the Microsoft SFU on the >client. > > >Also, while the BackupPC web interface is really nice, it gives users a >Unix representation of their Windows directory structure. While this is >technically correct I have had a number of clients ... ask hard >questions about why this is. > >You may need to look at making that somewhat more "Windows friendly" for >it to be effective. > >Regards, > Daniel >-- >It is always possible to aglutenate multiple separate problems into a single >complex interdependent solution. In most cases this is a bad idea. > -- RFC 1925 > > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.Net email is sponsored by: >Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE >LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. >http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click >_______________________________________________ >BackupPC-users mailing list >Bac...@li... >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users >http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = kevin oswald ko...@po... 2004-10-28 |
From: Daniel P. <da...@ri...> - 2004-10-28 23:12:26
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On 29 Oct 2004, kevin oswald wrote: > I don't quite understand what you mean a unix representation of the > directory structure.. directory structure is the same.. now if they > are used to going to "My Documents" to get to their c:\documents and > settings\username\my documents.. but that is same if they go to c:\... Sure, they do - but how many Windows users are used to browsing through their hard disk in that fashion, these days? Daniel -- Experts say you should never hit your child in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive? -- Roseanne |