X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Matthias Meyer Subject: Re: rsyncd cannot access volume shadow copy Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:13:27 +0100 Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Matthias Meyer wrote: > Hi, > > I run cygwin in Vista: > > I can create a volume shadow copy with vshadow from the Microsoft SDK as > well as map it to drive B:. > > I can access /cygdrive/b (bash) as well as B: (cmd) from terminals of the > same user which has mapped the shadow copy to the drive. > > But I can not access the shadow copy from terminals of other users. > > AND my rsyncd, which runs under the same user where the shadow copy was > mapped, can't access /cygdrive/b. > > rsync: chdir /cygdrive/b failed > > Any hint? > Thanks > Matthias I try the same under Windows XP and it works. But only one time. I map the drive with "dosdev b: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device... rsyncd works but has locked files 2009/02/18 19:54:05 [2112] rsync: send_files failed to open "Dokumente und Einstellungen/Administrator/Lokale Einstellungen/Anwendungsdaten/Microsoft/Windows/UsrClass.dat" (in B): Device or resource busy (16) After dosdev -r -d b: and again dosdev b: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device... I get from rsyncd: 2009/02/18 20:03:19 [2580] name lookup failed for 127.0.0.1: Unknown server error 2009/02/18 20:03:19 [2580] connect from UNKNOWN (127.0.0.1) 2009/02/18 20:03:19 [2580] rsync: chdir /cygdrive/b failed : No such file or directory (2) In both cases ls -alh /cygdrive/b will list the content of drive c: (which is as expected) :-O Matthias -- Don't Panic -- 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/