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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync on Windows 8?
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From: Kris L. <kl...@th...> - 2013-08-01 17:47:20
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For what it's worth, Michael's solution (with a few minor tweaks to the vshadow.exe and a few others) works well on Windows 8x64. It is relatively seamless, so no installed services, and runs on-demand via winexe calls from a pre-dump script. -Kris Kris Lou kl...@th... On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 5:10 AM, Jürgen Depicker <Jur...@le...>wrote: > Dear Mark, > > It seems you didn't try DeltaCopy: there is nothing in the tray: I run it > as a service just as you describe. > By default it extracts itself to C:\DeltaCopy and then, when running > DeltaS.exe, you can have it installing itself as a service. > You can just as easily do as you describe in your mail: copy the DeltaCopy > dir to the C$ share and register the service using the net rpc command. You > can easily change access permissions on the DeltaCopy dir to make sure no > regular user has access to it. Anyhow, if you configure a password which > all may know, a user executing DeltaS.exe can mess up your config only till > the next time you push the files :). > > I guess you should give it a try... > > Grts, Juergen > > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Mark Campbell [mailto:mca...@em...] > Verzonden: donderdag 1 augustus 2013 13:49 > Aan: General list for user discussion, questions and support > Onderwerp: Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync on Windows 8? > > The primary reason I have not gone the route of other programs such as > deltacopy, is that these windows boxes I am backing up via backuppc are end > users, as opposed to servers, and they have a bad habit of removing things > they see in the tray; nor can I count on them to install something on their > computer for me (some of them live in other states). With rsync/cygwin, I > can push the files onto their drive via the C$ share, and create/start a > service for them via the net rpc command--so they never see anything that > they'd likely interfere with. > > Thanks, > > --Mark > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jürgen Depicker [mailto:Jur...@le...] > Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 3:28 AM > To: General list for user discussion, questions and support > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync on Windows 8? > > >Sorry I can't directly help (since I don't have a Win8 machine). But if > someone can figure out the right set of cygwin files and the right recipe - > ideally one that works across Win8, Win7 etc - then I would be happy to > >update the recently released cygwin-rsyncd package (which was helpfully > provided by Ray Frush). > > >Craig > > -> Mark, did you try DeltaCopy already? It is extremely easy to configure > and it 'just works': no need to install Cygwin. I use it for many years on > Server 2003; I installed it yesterday on a Windows Server 2012 and it works > flawlessly, so probably W8 will be fine too. > http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp > It is an Rsync server; if you want to secure the transfer, you'll need to > look for CopSSH instead. > > Grts, > Juergen > > > > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 7:14 AM, Mark Campbell <mca...@em...> > wrote: > Apparently, my issue is not as solved as hoped. The service does start up > fine now, and doing an rsync --list-only to another machine lists the > contents of the module on the remote machine just fine, but when trying to > perform a backup of this machine with BackupPC (and even when trying to do > an rsync --list-only from another machine to it), it generates the error: > > [root@emtbackup2 /]# rsync --list-only > rsync://backupadmin@win8testvm/users > Password: > @ERROR: chdir failed > rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at > main.c(1503) [receiver=3.0.6] > > Online research suggests that this may be a permissions issue, but I've > tried running the service both as the "Local System Account", and as > "Administrator", with no variations on the error. Any suggestions on this? > > Thanks, > > --Mark > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Campbell [mailto:mca...@em...] > Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 1:59 PM > To: General list for user discussion, questions and support > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync on Windows 8? > > Andrew, > > I did fail to mention that once I decided to grab additional .dlls from > the install, that I copied over the corresponding updates to the original > files mentioned, to no avail. > > But your idea inspired me to try running the rsync that I installed in the > rsyncd directory in an administrator command line, and lo and behold, it > gave me an error message with a new missing .dll to get! Once I got that > one and dropped it in the rsyncd folder, I tried running it on the command > line again, and it gave me the rsync help menu. Once that worked, I tried > starting the service again, and it succeeded! Woo hoo! :) > > For the record (for anyone else that might be doing the same that I am > doing), these are all the files required by rsync to run as a service in > windows 8: > -cygiconv-2.dll > -cygintl-8.dll > -cygpopt-0.dll > -cygrunsrv.exe > -cygwin1.dll > -rsync.exe > -rsyncd.conf > > > > Thanks, > > --Mark > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Schulman [mailto:an...@al...] > Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 1:17 PM > To: bac...@li... > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync on Windows 8? > > > So I've been successfully backing up Windows XP, Vista & 7 machines to > my BackupPC instance using Cygwin1.dll, Cygrunsrv.exe, & rsync.exe as a > windows service. Then came a Windows 8 laptop to my work. I tried to > install rsync on it like I've done with all of the other Windows flavors, > but it failed. The files are located where they should be, and the service > gets registered, but when it tries to start the service, it fails. Event > log throws up entries like "rsyncd: PID 3092: `rsyncd' service stopped, > exit status: 127". Cygwin itself gave some slightly more verbose errors in > C:\var\log\rsyncd.log: > > > > /rsyncd/rsync.exe: error while loading shared libraries: > > cygpopt-0.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or > > directory > > /rsyncd/rsync.exe: error while loading shared libraries: > > cygiconv-2.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or > > directory > > > > Armed with both of these log entries, I downloaded the full blown > cygwin, extracted it, and found the appropriate .dlls and copied them to my > rsync directory. Then it gave me this error: > > > > /rsyncd/rsync.exe: error while loading shared libraries: ?: cannot > > open shared object file: No such file or directory > > > > What the deuce? I have no idea how to troubleshoot this one. Anyone > have any suggestions on how to get rsync working on Windows 8? > > Could it be that your rsyncd.exe was compiled against different versions > of those libraries? Since you've already created a full Cygwin > installation, I suggest starting by trying run the rsyncd that's in that. > If that works, then you can go back to trying to extract just the pieces > you need into a separate directory (or not). > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Get your SQL database under version control now! > Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent > caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under > version control? Why should you start doing it? 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