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Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 16:20:07 +0400
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru>
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To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Shadowcopy volume block devices
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Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!

> Btw., as a sidenote, are you aware that you can access the filesystem
> underneath the volume shadow copy as well?

> Try this (note the trailing backslash!):

>   $ cd /proc/sys/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1/
>   $ ls

> The only downside is that you can't cd into the root dir of the
> shadowcopy by using a ".." expression:

>   $ cd /proc/sys/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1/Users
>   $ cd ..
>   /proc/sys/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1: Not a directory.
>   $ cd ../
>   /proc/sys/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1: Not a directory.

> Here the path handling strips off the trailing backslash and what's
> left is a block device called /proc/sys/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1.
> With that in mind, it's quite usable, though.

Can this be worked around by a symlink or junction point? (I don't have access
to SVC-enabled box yet, sorry.)


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 29.05.2013, <16:19>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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