wimlib

Hello,

Is the [WARNING] '--update-of' is unreliable on Windows! message valid while doing .dwm backups after booting from Windows PE \ Preinstallation environmet? In the WinPE, there is no open handles to any files on the host operating system in the drive C:

Reading this section in the wimlib ...

Hello synchronicity,

All the files in /mnt/backup are hard-linked. The snapshot technique :

https://digitalis.io/blog/linux/incremental-backups-with-rsync-and-hard-links/

Output of the find command :

[root@testpc26 ~]# find /mnt/backup -inum 263330
/mnt/backup/archive0/etc/ssl/certs
/mnt ...

Attached is the complete log file.

Hello synchronicity,

A quick correction, the operating system is Oracle Linux 8.10

Here are the results.

Creating the test environment :

[root@testpc26 ~]# rsync -aAXHv / --delete --exclude={"/dev/*","/proc/*","/sys/*","/tmp/*","/run/*","/mnt/*","/media/*","/lost+found"} /mnt/backup/archive0 ...

Hi synchronicity,

No any bind mounts. The well known configuration :

Hi synchronicity,

The file system is the traditional ext4 :

[root@testpc26 ~]# mount | grep nvme0n1
/dev/nvme0n1p3 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime)
/dev/nvme0n1p2 on /boot type ext4 (rw,relatime)
/dev/nvme0n1p4 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime)
/dev/nvme0n1p1 on /boot/efi type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask ...

Hi Zed45,

At work, I am imaging Windows 11 2024 H2 systems with wimlib 1.14. All of them are passing the stage Sysprep. No any issues. Do you use any unattend.XML file? Is that file correct?

Hello,

Archiving a directory holding the rsync snapshot of the operating system with wimlib 1.14 is reporting a lot of "Not honoring directory hard link" messages. Is there a way to fix this issue?

[root@testpc26 ~]# wimcapture --unix-data /mnt/backup temp4.wim --compress=fast --threads=1024 ...

Hi synchronicity,

Thanks for your suggestions, I managed to build the RPM packages.

The problem with the gcc compiler suit is that the standart installation of the development tools is offering an old version :

[root@localhost ~]# gcc --version | grep gcc
gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5 ...

Hello,

Here, I found some equates :

https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zwisler/xfstests-dev/+/refs/heads/master/src/renameat2.c

#ifndef RENAME_NOREPLACE
#define RENAME_NOREPLACE (1 << 0) /* Don't overwrite target */
#endif
#ifndef RENAME_EXCHANGE
#define RENAME_EXCHANGE (1 ...