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backing up a Windoz system.



At 09:45 AM 7/18/2004, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>Every night I back up my wife's Windows system by mounting it and then
>rsync it to one of my drives. However, I continuously get the "too many
>open files" message in the log.

As someone mentioned you could use rsync from the MS-Windows side.

I currently use rsync under Cygwin under MS-Windows to do something similar.

You could also get the MS-Windows Services for Unix and then export/mount the file system with NFS. The pusher man had free downloads recently.





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