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Re: special name for vss shadow copy device?


On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Christian Franke
<Christian.Franke@t-online.de> wrote:
> 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=<my_image_file>
>>
>>
>
> 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,

Wonderful links and information!!

That is all I really needed, since I assume 1.5 is basically no longer
being developed, I don't see a big need to create mappings for the
shadow volumes.  I do think it would be good to have the above links
and documentation added to the special names section of the
documentation.

Time to experiment with Cygwin 1.7

I know the whole package is still considered test.  How stable is the
actual dll(s).  Especially as relates to this type of functionality.

Thanks
Greg
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