[Box Backup] CygWin Success!

[Ben Summers]

On 1 May 2004, at 06:02, <ara040422@cox.net> wrote:

> Just a quick thank you to Paul and Ben for getting bbackupd workable 
> under cygwin.  I had to re-install cygwin to get all of the right 
> packages.  But after that I simply compiled the client programs, and I 
> am currently backing up a few directories to check it out.  So far, so 
> good.

Great news!

>
> One question:  What would it take to get it to run outside of the 
> cygwin environment?

See notes/windows_porting.txt within the distribution archive for a 
quick rundown. It's a little more complex than just using Cygwin, but 
I'll do it eventually. I need to port some other stuff, and the client 
will be a matter of compiling once I've done that (famous last words!).

Ben