X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:38:48 +0100 (WEST) From: Hugh Sasse To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: file accessibility and copying/archive/... In-Reply-To: <4805C8DF.83CDD8DF@dessent.net> Message-ID: References: <48057350.D77AC915@dessent.net> <4805C8DF.83CDD8DF@dessent.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Brian Dessent wrote: > Hugh Sasse wrote: > > > Because it won't access things either? I can live without ntuser.dat > > but its knowing what the others are and why they fail that is part of > > the problem. > > It will be of no use because it still won't be able to access files that > are opened with sharing disallowed. OK, thanks, and since that depends on the open command it could be any, and hard to tell what. [...] > > Can it extract individual files from the backup? I don't want to copy > > old Windows System files on to the new machine when it appears. > > When you restore you can choose which files from the backup to include. > Or, when you create the backup you can just exclude those files. Either > way, it's a big tree-view with a checkbox next to each dir. Great, thanks. The last time I tried to use native backup on it, it was from the disk->properties->tools, and it only allowed me to backup to ... floppy disk. For a 70GB drive that was marvellous. Now I know what to look for. > > Brian > Thank you Hugh -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/