[BackupPC-users] rsync with VSS-support

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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.