Author: elrich <backuppc-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 08:26:13 -0800
Good evening, I'm trying to backup a windows server (2003/2008) machine. Thing is, everytime I have to do a backup I must stop some services before. I know that while using rsyncd backupPC has an opt
Author: "Michael Stowe" <mstowe AT chicago.us.mensa DOT org>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:33:29 -0600
The scripts run on the backup server, so you'll need a way to remotely execute Windows programs from the backup server. The venerable winexe is up to the task; the alternative to shutting down servi
Author: elrich <backuppc-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:52:10 -0800
Hello Michael, first of all thank you for answering me. I'm going to use winexe to test it out since the teacher wants us to stop the service. Whil reading the read me file, I saw that winexe is usin
Author: elrich <backuppc-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 02:04:24 -0800
Hello Michael, first of all thank you for answering me. I'm going to use winexe to test it out since the teacher wants us to stop the service. Whil reading the read me file, I saw that winexe is usin
Author: Adam Goryachev <mailinglists AT websitemanagers.com DOT au>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:55:51 +1100
I do use winexe on remote servers, but only over a openvpn tunnel. This means samba is only exposed to the VPN rather than the Internet in general. For a "test" or "project" or even school assignment
Author: elrich <backuppc-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 04:04:47 -0800
hello, thank you for answering Adam. So what would you recommend me to use? Cygwin + open-ssh? Then how could I get the script to work on my windows server? thank you for your answers, I must say tha
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:08:05 -0600
Cygwin ssh will make the windows system more linux-like. That is, in addition to the encrypted connection, you can install a bash shell and the usual unix-like tool set. If you want to work in a mixe
elrich wrote at about 23:52:10 -0800 on Monday, January 14, 2013: You might want to look at my version "shadowmountrsync" that uses ssh to launch vss.exe (after bootstrapping via 'at' to escalate pri
elrich wrote at about 02:04:24 -0800 on Tuesday, January 15, 2013: The problem (likely) is that ssh logs in as the SYSTEM (or equivalent) user that doesn't have permission to run vss.exe. I get aroun
Author: elrich <backuppc-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 07:33:31 -0800
"he problem (likely) is that ssh logs in as the SYSTEM (or equivalent) user that doesn't have permission to run vss.exe. I get around that by using a recursion script to escalate privileges via 'at'.
Author: elrich <backuppc-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:38:40 -0800
"he problem (likely) is that ssh logs in as the SYSTEM (or equivalent) user that doesn't have permission to run vss.exe. I get around that by using a recursion script to escalate privileges via 'at'.
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:57:45 -0600
Windows has some strange authentication concepts and logging in with a key is not exactly the same as using a password, but I don't know enough about it to help. In any case if you get read access to
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:07:33 -0600
Off-topic question: have you found any way to debug winexe problems? I use it for some other automation running from CentOS5 and CentOS6 hosts and find that it sometimes fails with a 'failed to insta
Author: "Michael Stowe" <mstowe AT chicago.us.mensa DOT org>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:12:36 -0600
Well, winexe sits on samba, so that's often the place to start. Generally speaking, most problems can be tracked down using smbclient to connect to C$ on the same system. If that doesn't work, winex
Author: Adam Goryachev <mailinglists AT websitemanagers.com DOT au>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:57:45 +1100
No, the main problem I've had is with winexe timeout on one specific destination machine, however, I'm pretty sure that is a networking issue (ie, there seems to be a flaky DSL connection in the way)
elrich wrote at about 08:38:40 -0800 on Tuesday, January 15, 2013: Just because cyg_server is a member of administrators does not mean that ssh login has that capability. You can try it yourself... t
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 08:10:10 -0600
And note that at least some versions of windows may treat ssh login with a password differently than with a key in terms of having access to things like vss. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell AT gmail DOT
Author: "Michael Stowe" <mstowe AT chicago.us.mensa DOT org>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:13:51 -0600
To alleviate that sort of problem, I use this snippet (from my preusercmd script): -- $WINEXE --interactive=0 -U $UNAME -W $WRKGRP --password=$PWD //$BOX 'cmd /c c:\backuppc\pre-exec.cmd' <&- & pid=