On 4/15/2010 10:24 AM, Adam Goryachev wrote:
>
>
> Can anyone suggest a solution which works reliably for them including
> both SSH + rsync or SSH + rsyncd on windows with BPC ?

There have been some solutions posted that used ssh port-forwarding to 
connect to rsyncd which was configured or firewalled to only accept 
localhost connections.  But I thought the current cygwin sshd/rsync 
basically worked like it would on Linux (earlier versions would hang 
randomly).

> So far. I've tried various combinations of the above with very
> un-reliable results. One method I'm using now is openvpn + rsyncd, but
> again that is also not reliable (because openvpn falls over so BPC can't
> ping, so no backup (and no error)).

You can probably fix the openvpn setup.  Are you using something like:
keepalive 30 120
ping-timer-rem
persist-tun
persist-key
or on the client side of a client/server:
ping 15
ping-restart 45

The likely problem is a stateful firewall that times out the connection 
if there is no activity.

> Bonus would be a solution that can backup open files...

Those have been posted too, using windows VSS shadow copies.

-- 
    Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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