Hey, thanks for porting to Windows. I checked the Wiki, and see the items NOT working and that you'd work on it more when you have time. Looks like
that was 4 months ago. Is your effort abandoned?
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Please have in mind that the ports of LB (OS X, windows, OS/2, freeBSD etc)
are a responsibility of their maintainer and are not directly related to the
main LB (linux) project (Of course there is interaction between them).
I will contact Bruce directly in case he's not monitoring this forum. Of
course he can provide a more "official" answer since he's the port maintainer,
but I can say that it is not easy and maybe not possible at all to have all
features of LB working for windows. This is mainly because some essential
tools that LB uses (such as cron for scheduling) are not available for win (as
far as I'm aware).
Loukas
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Thank you for your reply.
In his post, he mentioned how surprisingly easy it was to port given the
quality of the source (kudos to you) - so I had hoped it would be able to keep
up with the feature set. Though Bruce admits in his side note being new to the
language required to make the port.
I've been using FreeFileSync, but then saw the feature set of LB (especially
snapshots), and considered making the switch. But if the Windows version is
not likely to continue in development, I don't want to commit to it. I've been
advocating FFS to make use of hard links, which would provide space savings,
much like LB snapshots (I think). But, I do like the polish of LB!
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So I've finally created a Sourceforge account and looked at all the forums for luckyb. Almost shameful that I hadn't already done this months ago. But better late then never right?
Bryan the future of luckyB on Windows is definately good. I've just been pretty busy in life for the last few months and have not be able to do much with the project but it's definately not dead or headed in that direction. I've made some recent updates to the wiki and plan to devote a lot more time in 2013 :).
Scheduling does work now via the Windows Task Scheduler and I've almost completed some instructions to get e-mailing to work through cygwin tools. I actually backup a few dozen windows servers and am planning to switch over that task to luckyb. Just by doing this should give the windows version a lot of testing and force me to spend more time on the project (an intended effect).
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Welcome to Windows
Please visit the luckybackup windows wiki
before
you post here
Hey, thanks for porting to Windows. I checked the Wiki, and see the items
NOT working and that you'd work on it more when you have time. Looks like
that was 4 months ago. Is your effort abandoned?
Hi Bryan,
Please have in mind that the ports of LB (OS X, windows, OS/2, freeBSD etc)
are a responsibility of their maintainer and are not directly related to the
main LB (linux) project (Of course there is interaction between them).
I will contact Bruce directly in case he's not monitoring this forum. Of
course he can provide a more "official" answer since he's the port maintainer,
but I can say that it is not easy and maybe not possible at all to have all
features of LB working for windows. This is mainly because some essential
tools that LB uses (such as cron for scheduling) are not available for win (as
far as I'm aware).
Loukas
Thank you for your reply.
In his post, he mentioned how surprisingly easy it was to port given the
quality of the source (kudos to you) - so I had hoped it would be able to keep
up with the feature set. Though Bruce admits in his side note being new to the
language required to make the port.
I've been using FreeFileSync, but then saw the feature set of LB (especially
snapshots), and considered making the switch. But if the Windows version is
not likely to continue in development, I don't want to commit to it. I've been
advocating FFS to make use of hard links, which would provide space savings,
much like LB snapshots (I think). But, I do like the polish of LB!
So I've finally created a Sourceforge account and looked at all the forums for luckyb. Almost shameful that I hadn't already done this months ago. But better late then never right?
Bryan the future of luckyB on Windows is definately good. I've just been pretty busy in life for the last few months and have not be able to do much with the project but it's definately not dead or headed in that direction. I've made some recent updates to the wiki and plan to devote a lot more time in 2013 :).
Scheduling does work now via the Windows Task Scheduler and I've almost completed some instructions to get e-mailing to work through cygwin tools. I actually backup a few dozen windows servers and am planning to switch over that task to luckyb. Just by doing this should give the windows version a lot of testing and force me to spend more time on the project (an intended effect).