RE: [BackupPC-users] rsync with ssh

[Ben <be...@uk...>]

Someone recently posted an easy ssh for windows package:
http://lexa.mckenna.edu/sshwindows/

It even has a nice installer package. It's around 2mb I think.

So, you say that rsyncd is faster than rsync/ssh? Do you get the same
results though over a slower (internet) link? The two main reasons why I
want to use rsync rather than rsyncd is 1) more secure, and 2) well,
I've been having trouble with rsyncd where, all incrementals just get
treated as full dumps. It can't tell the difference between files that
have changed, and files that haven't, and ends up copying all files over
regardless of weather they have been changed or not. So I thought I'd
try rsync instead. Rsyncd *was* working fine for a while then it just
decided to copy everything over from client machines.

On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 09:49, Guus Houtzager wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 23:06, Ben wrote:
> > That's rather interesting. I have never tried backing up a linux box
> > via ssh/rsync, only windows boxes. I will setup backuppc to backup a
> > linux box via ssh/rsync and see if that works. If it does, then I
> > guess that means that there's something wrong with cygwin part of
> > things.
> > 
> > Have you tried backing up your w2k server with ssh/rsync like the rest
> > of your machines you are backing up?
> 
> Well, it was my intention to use rsync/ssh to backup the w2k box, but
> when I started horsing around with cygwin, it became a mess. I don't
> remember exactly, but I think I got it working, but it left me with a
> lot of cygwin stuff installed on the w2k server and I didn't like that.
> Then I noticed the lean and mean cygwin rsyncd stuff on the backuppc
> site, so I tried that and it works very nice. But if someone has a sshd
> + rsync only cygwin package, then I would prefer that over my current
> rsyncd solution.
> 
> On a side note: rsyncd is pretty fast which is nice, 2 to 3 times faster
> than rsync over ssh, even on fairly fast machines and using a fast
> payload cipher like blowfish.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Guus Houtzager