Re: [BackupPC-users] Help: Backing up a WinXP-Client via Rsync (Cygwin)

[Les M. <le...@fu...>]

Kurt Jasper wrote:
> 
> I want to backup a Windows XP Client using BackupPC. Since the 
> Windows-Box is NOT running Windows XP Professional, I don't want to use 
> smb as backup method, because I can not set detailed user rights (only 
> possible when using win xp prof.)
> 
> So I thought I'll take the same approach for backing up the windows 
> client that I used for backing up my linux server:
> 
> 1) I've installed cygwin on the client including openssh, rsync

I've never been able to make cygwin rsync work reliably under sshd on 
windows.  If someone else has, perhaps they can post links to the 
working versions.  You can run rsync in stand-alone daemon mode instead 
and use the rsyncd method on backuppc.

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   Les Mikesell
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