Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Backing up from Linux to Windows?

[Austin Roberts]

I've tried both versions. The cygwin version had path too long errors, and I haven't been able to get the native version to act as the remote machine. I'll provide tracebacks next time I have the opportunity to run things.

Thanks for the quick response.

- Austin

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Andrew Ferguson <address@hidden> wrote:

On Jan 14, 2009, at 6:32 PM, Austin Roberts wrote:

My dad and I are trying to set up an across the internet backup solution using rdiff-backup. I run Linux, he runs Windows. I set up Cygwin so I could run the rdiff-backup server over SSH, but ran into an error where path names were too long (I understand this to be a limitation of Cygwin). Backing up from Windows to Linux seems to work fine, using the distributed rdiff-backup executable.

What version of rdiff-backup did you try? Cygwin or native? There's some code in 1.2.5 to try to continue in the face of 'path too long'-type errors.

Also, if you still have any tracebacks from from your errors, feel free to send them to me or the list.


thanks,
Andrew