To get Tarsnap working under cygwin, here’s what you need to do:
- Install the following packages using the cygwin setup tool:
- gcc4
- make
- openssl (needed for runtime, not for building)
- openssl-devel
- zlib-devel
- Download and extract the Tarsnap code
- Run
./configure(this seems to be much slower on cygwin than on other more UNIXy platforms) - Run
make all install clean
Tarsnap should now be installed and you can use it in the normal fashion - create a host key with tarsnap-keygen and then get backing up!
Edit 2009-12-16: checkers from #tarsnap on EFnet has written a post with scripts for Linux and Cygwin tarsnapping on his blog
You may also wish at add --prefix=/ to the configure command line, as /usr/local isn’t in the default path.