Re: fwbackups saving sets with \ in filename!
Posted by jwd45244 on 2012/3/14 19:17:17
Have you looked at cygwin? http://www.cygwin.com/
Re: fwbackups saving sets with \ in filename!
Posted by nosebreaker on 2012/3/13 15:58:39
Well it was a Centos/fedora program that was ported to Windows, so I thought someone might have run into the same problem. It is backing up to a CentOS server at least. There is no unix-to-windows-custom-software forum anywhere that I am aware of, CentOS software seemed the best location. I tried contacting the author but got no answer.
No, I don't create anything, fwbackups itself creates those funky file paths. If it isn't supported yet I guess that is why. I was hoping it would be a minor fix in that source file. Looks like rsync is probably a better option, I'm sure there is a better GUI version of it for Windows.
No, I don't create anything, fwbackups itself creates those funky file paths. If it isn't supported yet I guess that is why. I was hoping it would be a minor fix in that source file. Looks like rsync is probably a better option, I'm sure there is a better GUI version of it for Windows.
Re: fwbackups saving sets with \ in filename!
Posted by pschaff on 2012/3/12 19:09:09
Debugging/modifying a Windows backup program problem is not an appropriate topic for "CentOS 6 - Software Support". Moving to Social.
It appears that SFTP should be supported but you are apparently misusing it. From your description is seems you created a directory structure on the target and then attempted to back up to it, rather than creating a backup set on the target.
The Windows version does not support incremental backups:
http://www.diffingo.com/downloads/fwbackups/docs/html/sect-User_Guide-Creating_a_backup_set-Options_Simple.html
Quote:
It appears that SFTP should be supported but you are apparently misusing it. From your description is seems you created a directory structure on the target and then attempted to back up to it, rather than creating a backup set on the target.
The Windows version does not support incremental backups:
http://www.diffingo.com/downloads/fwbackups/docs/html/sect-User_Guide-Creating_a_backup_set-Options_Simple.html
Quote:
Enabling the Backups are incremental option will run an incremental backup instead of a full one, copying only the changes since your last backup. Currently, the incremental backups are only available for set backups on Unix-like platforms (such as Linux and OS X) and cannot be used when backing up to a remote host.
Additionally, running an incremental backup will update the backup folder in-place so no old backups will be kept if you choose to enable incremental backups.
fwbackups saving sets with \ in filename!
Posted by nosebreaker on 2012/3/12 18:10:46
I am testing fwbackups from my WinXP laptop going to my home SSH server. To start I created a test backup set to push my TFTP directory over. I am doing a direct copy of the files and folders, because I wanted to be able to check off the "incremental" box (I presumed it would let me after it did a full backup once, but it does not, but letting it go as a single gzipped file does the same problem below).
The backup works, but the file paths are as follows:
backup\Backup-test-set-2012-03-12_10-07\C:TFTP-Root\filename.cfg
Note that is the filename, not a full path to the file! This is in /home/myuser.
Any suggestions for a fix? Convert \ to / in the program? I tried looking in sftp.py but I am not sure where to modify.
The backup works, but the file paths are as follows:
backup\Backup-test-set-2012-03-12_10-07\C:TFTP-Root\filename.cfg
Note that is the filename, not a full path to the file! This is in /home/myuser.
Any suggestions for a fix? Convert \ to / in the program? I tried looking in sftp.py but I am not sure where to modify.
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