Statler’s Rogue Valley Views

http://www.scottmurphy.info/open-ssh-server-sshd-cygwin-windows

I lost this link, so I’m adding it now to never lose it again! -

This is particularly for Dell drivers,l but it can be made to apply to any drivers.

The page also contains a link to download all Dell LAN and  storage drivers (x86 and x64).

http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/os-applications/w/wiki/2558.aspx

For other drivers try http://driverpacks.net/

To extract drivers from an existing system (useful for editing a WinPE Easus boot cd perhaps) try
http://forum.driverpacks.net/viewtopic.php?id=4927

the best way to add drivers in windows 7 ?
http://forum.driverpacks.net/viewtopic.php?id=4676

“It’s main goal is to be used after Windows is installed and after user logs in for the first time to Windows using Administrative account. All you do is put drivers for all (or just one) computers in one directory, start the program and press Action/Install Missing Drivers (or in Automatic mode just start program and it should do all steps by itself).”
http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/70209-drivers-instalation-in-post-install-stage-new-method/

A couple of quick notes follow the download links and then there is an example.

The easiest way to install rsync on Windows is to use DeltaCopy. There are many useful articles about installing DeltaCopy but this link is useful as well.

===Note 1 –link-dest and DeltaCopy Server ===============

I was trying to get DeltaCopy to take the –link-dest parameter using relative paths to go up a couple of directories. It wouldn’t work. Experimentation showed me that it’s something to do with the DeltaCopy Server, not the DeltaCopy client.

Here’s what I tried that worked with a batch file (Windows XP) (Watch for line wraps)

rsync.exe  -v -rlt –perms –delete   “–link-dest=../../Daily/1/” “/cygdrive/G/BackupSequentially/Test Files” “/cygdrive/G/BackupSequentially/Vault/Hourly/0/”

Here’s what didn’t work:

rsync.exe  -v -rlt –perms –delete   “–link-dest=../../Daily” “/cygdrive/G/BackupSequentially/Test Files” “office::BackupHourly/”

The end of that last line represents the DeltaCopy Server address. I’m guessing it’s going to do that whether using DeltaCopy or just an rsync daemon .

The parameter will work if the linked folder is in the same folder as the destination, but that’s not helpful really. When the relative path is used the Server gets totally confused.

So, for this backup project I’ll use a straight command line to run the backup instead of DeltaCopy since I’m running this on the local LAN. For remote backups I won’t use the –link-dest parameter so I can use the SSH feature of DelatCopy client.

===Note 2 Trailing Slashes=====================

Slashes must be used very carefully. Here are some things I’ve learned about them.

–link-dest needs a trailing slash, apparently always

If there is no trailing slash after source and destination the command will rebuild source root folder in destination

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“/cygdrive/G/BackupSequentially/Test Files” “/cygdrive/G/BackupSequentially/Vault/Hourly/0/”

Note no trailing slash after source, left destination with a <Test Files> folder

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“/cygdrive/G/BackupSequentially/Test Files/” “/cygdrive/G/BackupSequentially/Vault/Hourly/0/”

Note a trailing slash after source, left destination without a <Test Files> folder

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“/cygdrive/G/BackupSequentially/Test Files/” “/cygdrive/G/BackupSequentially/Vault/Hourly/0″

Note no trailing slash after destination, left destination with a <Test Files> folder
The trailing slash after the destination doesn’t seem to make a difference, but I could be wrong.

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My final example

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Example of rsync with –link-dest and TCP address for destination, no security (SSH)
Directory structure
\\192.168.1.83\BackupSequentially\Vault\Hourly\0
\\192.168.1.83\BackupSequentially\Vault/Daily\0
Purpose: Copy <Test Files> to <Hourly\0> with hard links to <Daily\0> if files already exist there
Note: rsync command uses “/” instead of windows “\”

rsync.exe  -v -rlt –perms –delete   “–link-dest=../../Daily/0/” “/cygdrive/G/BackupSequentially/Test Files” “//192.168.1.83/BackupSequentially/Vault/Hourly/0″
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I use a more extensive AutoIT script to do multiple hourly and daily backups using the above principle

Delete the SVCPACK folder (I386SVCPACK) if you don’t want to add other programs.
Also, if you want to remove unattended setup, name and company, etc. go to $OEM$$$System32 and edit OEMINFO.INI, then go to I386 and edit WINNT.SIF.

Use 7zip to extract files from the iso, edit, then create new bootable iso.

http://itinypad.com/download.html

or FreeMind

http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page