[Box Backup-dev] Hello all - win32 client

G. boxbackup-dev@fluffy.co.uk
Fri, 21 Jul 2006 05:08:31 -0700 (PDT)


Nick,

> In fact I would go as far to say that in my days as an embedded software
> engineer, we always wrote for Microsoft ide, then port to the platform
> which would have much faster development cycles!

We did exactly the same thing in my commercial UN*X development :).

> 3. Look at the possibility of Shadow Copy, it looks quite tricky so no
> promises! But this looks much needed for the likes of backing up
> Exchange

Yes, Shadow Copy is the only way to safely backup Exchange, SQL Server, and the like.

> 4. File change notification from either the NTFS change journal, or
> ReadDirectoryChangesW to get notifies about changed files instead of
> polling

Nice.

Gary


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