Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows client with rsync failing

[Les M. <les...@gm...>]

On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 12:41, David Koski wrote:

> backuppc host: Debian testing
> backuppc version: 2.1.1-2 (Debian)
> client: Windows 2003 with current version of cygwin/ssh/rsync
> backup method: rsync (over ssh)
> 
> Originally, I thought it was failing on file names with spaces but using
> BackupPC_dump manually, now I can see it just stops communicating. It does in fact
> handle spaces. ssh'ing to the Windows/cygwin box and issuing "ps aux" shows four
> rsync processes still running. Eventually, (probably hours later, as I left it
> over night) the server will exit with error "Got fatal error during xfer (Child
> exited prematurely)". It transfers several files successfully before this point.
> 
> Any clues?
> 
> Also, what other backuppc options are there for backing Windows up over a public
> network securely?

Cygwin rsync has never worked when started by sshd.  You'll see the same
hang if you try to run rsync manually outside of backuppc.  I ended up
parking a Linux box near all remote windows servers and running a
scheduled rsync from windows to the local linux box, then letting
backuppc back up the linux copy via rsync over ssh, adding the -C option
to get compression.  This also has the advantage of keeping a nearby
copy of the last run for quick access at the site.

The alternative is to use some sort of vpn or ssh port-forwarding and
run rsyncd instead.

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  Les Mikesell
   les...@gm...