Re: [BackupPC-users] Keep backup data when source host/directory changes

[John R. <rou...@re...>]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 07:40:15AM -0700, Mark Campbell wrote:
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Holger Parplies [mailto:[elided]] 
> >Mark Campbell wrote on 2013-03-06 07:48:44 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Keep backup data when source host/directory changes]:
> >> As for the differing locations, you haven't mentioned what method you 
> >> use to back up this server.  I use rsync (and I think most people do).  
> >> In the case of rsync, even with the data being in a different place, 
> >> you can still set up the rsync.conf file on the host to use the same 
> >> rsync path, pointing to a different place.  As an example, let's say 
> >> that I had data in /home/user/data being backed up, and that the rsync 
> >> path for this was rsync://<host>/data1.
> >
> >I think you are actually talking about rsyncd, right?
>
> I am--my clients linux & windows alike use rsync as a daemon.  I'm
> not aware of any other way to do rsync for Windows.

You can use rsync just like you would on Unix: ssh direct execution of
rsync without rsycnd. This won't work IIRC if you need to use VSS
(unless there is a VSS aware rsync) but otherwise it works fine.

I use cygwin for the sshd/rsync binaries now but I did get it working
with all native windows versions of tools at one point.

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				-- rouilj

John Rouillard       System Administrator
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