I find it more convenient to do includes rather than excludes. Set the
RSYNC share to c:/Documents and Settings/ and then include Favorites,
MyDocuments and Desktop seems to work pretty well. I just make it clear
to users that anything not in those places will not be backed up. Of
course if there are any particular requirements on one machine you can
set that up on a per machine basis as required.
RSYNCD seems to be the most reliable method for me. I don't bother with
ssh.



On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 16:53 -0600, Linux Punk wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 4:49 AM, Steen Eugen Poulsen <sep AT lix-world DOT 
> net> wrote:
> > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky skrev:
> >>
> >> I have googled and read a lot of posts about people having trouble
> >> with cygwin rsync/ssh but haven't seen any definitive solutions.
> >
> > I don't think it has anything to do with cygwin or how you backup windows
> > machines, it's just that we keep running into file lock issues that messes
> > up backups.
> 
> I would tend to disagree because we have dozens of machines that
> backup successfully using rsyncd server (no ssh) but we ran into
> exactly the issues described when tunneling rsync in ssh. If it was a
> problem with locked files affecting rsync, we would see those problems
> in both instances. We've also tried backing up dummy directories that
> have no open files in them, and had that fail with rsync/ssh.
> 
> > To successfully backup Windows machine I need a huge exclude list, without
> > it things always seem to be very troubled.
> 
> We have a short exclude list, but we still get lots of failures on
> various files that should probably be excluded. We have no problems
> with the backups locking up on only certain files though.
> 
> Brian Oborn
> 
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