So in other words, you still need a daemon; whether it's rsync directly, or a
cygwin/native ssh daemon running on the client machine that then execute rsync.
In my case, since all my backups are done internally, encryption wasn't a big
deal, so I opted for setting up the cygwin rsync binary as a service on Windows
(and figured I'd also use rsyncd on linux, for uniformity). It's simple,
straightforward, and I have rules in place that only allow the backup server to
connect to them.
Thanks,
--Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: John Rouillard [mailto:rouilj-backuppc AT renesys DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 10:01 AM
To: General list for user discussion, questions and support
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Keep backup data when source host/directory
changes
On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 07:40:15AM -0700, Mark Campbell wrote:
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Holger Parplies [mailto:[elided]] Mark Campbell wrote on
> >2013-03-06 07:48:44 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Keep backup data when source
> >host/directory changes]:
> >> As for the differing locations, you haven't mentioned what method
> >> you use to back up this server. I use rsync (and I think most people do).
> >> In the case of rsync, even with the data being in a different
> >> place, you can still set up the rsync.conf file on the host to use
> >> the same rsync path, pointing to a different place. As an example,
> >> let's say that I had data in /home/user/data being backed up, and
> >> that the rsync path for this was rsync://<host>/data1.
> >
> >I think you are actually talking about rsyncd, right?
>
> I am--my clients linux & windows alike use rsync as a daemon. I'm not
> aware of any other way to do rsync for Windows.
You can use rsync just like you would on Unix: ssh direct execution of rsync
without rsycnd. This won't work IIRC if you need to use VSS (unless there is a
VSS aware rsync) but otherwise it works fine.
I use cygwin for the sshd/rsync binaries now but I did get it working with all
native windows versions of tools at one point.
--
-- rouilj
John Rouillard System Administrator
Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111
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