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H. S. wrote:<SNIP>
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 05:07:15PM -0500, H. S. wrote:
Hi,
I have installed Cygwin on a Windows XP computer to get rsync and ssh running so that I can backup my important data on a Linux computer on my home LAN. The idea is to use rsync to make rolling backups of my Windows data automatically, say, once or twice a day and to retain last N backups (N most probably going to be 10~20).
But the problem I had not foreseen is that I dual boot this Windows machine between Windows XP and Debian. How should I gracefully let the rsync server know if this computer is running Linux or XP?
I know that if the computer is running Linux, the rsync server will
never find /cygdrive/... folders and will just quite with an error.
But this is not 'clean', it will result in mails to the rsync
server root about the error.
Suggestions?
Perhaps you could look for environmental variables that Windows sets but Linux doesn't. COMSPEC, windir, SystemDrive, SystemRoot, ProgramFiles, CommonProgramFiles
thanks, ->HS
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