X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <49A59485.8090401@t-online.de> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:57:09 +0100 From: Christian Franke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 SeaMonkey/1.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: special name for vss shadow copy device? References: <87f94c370902241242q78d0d068o4416b4ae2aa9be62@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <87f94c370902241242q78d0d068o4416b4ae2aa9be62@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Greg Freemyer wrote: > ... > My personal desire is make a full dd copy of a snapshot onto a external drive. > > ie. dd if=/dev/sd-shadowcopy4 of= > > With new Cygwin 1.7, the VSS volume image can be retrieved as follows: dd if='//?/GLOBALROOT/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy4' of=... But this does not work with Cygwin 1.5. To access individual files, assign a drive letter X: to the VSS volume: http://blogs.msdn.com/adioltean/archive/2006/09/18/761515.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/adioltean/archive/2005/01/20/357836.aspx Then you can access the files via /cygdrive/x. This works with cygwin 1.5 also. Only the WinXP explorer refuses to access the drive. See also related discussion here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-11/msg00070.html Hope this helps, Christian -- 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/