> What's the current state of the art of doing windows backups? I've just
> been using smb and letting a commercial system run separately to cover
> the open file and permission failures I see, but now I'm down to one
> windows file server in this location and I'd like to make backuppc
> reliable enough to shut the other system down.
>
> Google popped this:
> http://majentis.com/2011/01/03/backuppc-with-sshrsyncvss-on-windows-server/
> up near the top of the list, and it seems to imply that a stock cygwin
> 1.7 install and a bash file using 'at' to escalate permissions over what
> you get with the shell under ssh is all you need.   Are there better
> ways?  For this, I don't really care about acls or being able to restore
> the system files and I prefer bash over batch syntax.

*Better* is probably determined by your particular priorities; there are
at least two alternatives, all of which rely on the vshadow executable. 
One's here:

http://www.goodjobsucking.com/?p=62

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