RE: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd over ssh transport on Windows?

[Hamish G. <ha...@pr...>]

It appears as though a secure rsync is indeed a serious issue. The ssh|rsync
certainly does not work reliably - there certainly appears to be an issue
with cygwin and rsync and ssh. I saw a while ago on the list some talk of
using stunnel with rsync, and in particular, I think it was Ranbir who did a
lot of work to try to get this working - Ranbir also somehere said that once
he had it running, he would publish a HOWTO or something.

I was just wondering Ranbir, if you eventually managed to get this working,
and if so, which version of stunnel, rsync etc.

I know stunnel seems to be a bit of overkill, but if it works, hey, why
not?, especially if we can put together a nice easy howto, or even a small
installer for Windows - this would make secure backups of Windows PC a lot
easier.

How far did you manage to progress Ranbir, or did it never work out?

Regards,

Hamish

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bac...@li...
> [mailto:bac...@li...]On Behalf Of
> Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
> Sent: 02 March 2005 05:52
> To: bac...@li...
> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd over ssh transport on Windows?
>
>
> On 03/01 06:09 , Gregory Sutter wrote:
> > I can get rsyncd to function,
> > and the whole system to run perfectly, except that rsyncd is not
> > using ssh and therefore the backup traffic is not encrypted.
>
> this is indeed a problem. Some people have proposed using stunnel
> to provide
> encryption of the connection.
> Another option would be a VPN like OpenVPN or IPSec; which if set up
> properly could provide an additional layer of authentication for
> this backup
> connection.
>
> > After searching in vain for BackupPC configuration variables which
> > will allow rsyncd to use ssh transport, I'm mailing here.  Is there
> > an easy way to do this within BackupPC?
>
> AFAIK, rsyncd can't use SSH, since it listens directly for the
> rsync client
> connection.
>
> > If I am not in the end able to use BPC+rsyncd+ssh in this way, I plan
> > to install Cygwin OpenSSH and backup the Windows clients in the same
> > way as the Mac and Unix.  Thanks for any help!
>
> I am told that this tends to break; but I haven't tried it myself to see
> exactly where it breaks. It's almost certainly due to bugs somewhere in
> Windows+Cygwin SSH. (as if that narrows things down).
>
>
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> Carl Soderstrom
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