Hi all! I'm new to this forum and I love this site. It has helped me soooo much lately. Sorry if this question has been asked, I have done a search but did not find what I wanted. My question is..... How do you setup Backuppc to Rsync windows machines? I have found some sites mentioning Cygwin with ssh and rsync. I tried to do it that way but failed miserably. I ran into so many issues with the damn SSH crap. Is there a way to Rsync a windows machine without using SSH. I'm backing up locally and really do not need SSH for any security reasons. I've been following this walkthrough... http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_backuppc And this.... http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~kscully/CygwinSSHD_W2K3.html Any info would help me out so much.
If you just need a backup of that windows machine to a central site, maybe take a look at bacula (http://www.bacula.org), it also has a storage client for windows... http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Supported_Operating_Systems.html
Yeah it's just getting damn Backuppc to be configured correctly to connect to the server with Rsync. Does anyone know if you can make Backuppc Rsync without using SSH? I went through and put # in front of the SSH commands. Will that be enough? If anyone knows of a walk through that explains backing up windows machine with Rsync instead of Samba with Backuppc would be great. Thank you all for you help!
I got it working!! WOOOOO! I installed cwRsync on the win server and got it setup correctly, then fiddled with Backuppc and finally got the settings correct in it.
