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using Windows backup API?


Traditionally, in UNIX, a root user can access any file in the system without doing anything special.

This contrasts with Windows, where even Administrator user can't read files for which he has not access permissions (i.e., a file with all permissions removed)[1].

To access such files in Windows, one needs to use a special Backup API.


However, ported UNIX tools, like rsync, are not aware of this API (and I doubt they ever will) - this results in that they can't access certain files, even if the tool is started by the Administrator user:


C:\rsyncd\rsync.exe 1.txt copy.txt
rsync: send_files failed to open "/cygdrive/c/test/1.txt": Permission denied (13)



Is it somehow possible to use this Windows Backup API transparently for applications using Cygwin dll?




[1] This is something else as files opened exclusively, like Windows registry files, which can be accessed by using shadow copy



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Tomasz Chmielewski
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