Hello,

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
2) I've created a password secured root user on the windows client
3) The BackupPC-User on the server can login into the Windows-Root-User 
without a password since I exhanged the public-keys
4) The windows-client can be found using nmblookup WIN-CLIENT-NAME and 
also reverse nmblookup -a CLIENT-IP
5) The configuration file on the backuppc-server contains:

$Conf{FullPeriod} = 6.97;
$Conf{IncrPeriod} = 0.97;
$Conf{FullKeepCnt} = 2;
$Conf{IncrKeepCnt} = 6;
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsync';
$Conf{RsyncShareName} = '/';
$Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = undef;
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/cygdrive','/proc','/tmp'];
$Conf{XferLogLevel} = 1;
$Conf{CompressLevel} = 3;

Problem: If I start the backup with the above configuration it takes 
forever ... the client seems to work, but no data seems to be 
tarnsferred. I though that the above configuration should just backup my 
c:\cygwin-directory on the client (leaving out /proc and /tmp).
Even after 40 minutes of heavy work (fan running at full speed) and even 
if the cygwin-directoy has only 300 MB no data is transferred to the 
backup client.

If I change    $Conf{RsyncShareName} = '/';
to                $Conf{RsyncShareName} = '/home';

the backup is working without a problem (just backing up the cygwin-home 
directories of course).

Any idea what is going wrong?
I really would like to see a client config-file from you, if you're 
using the same setup Cygwin+Rsync or what kind of setup you are using to 
backup a win-xp to backuppc (without using samba).

kind regards

- Kurt


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