Kurt Jasper wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I want to backup a Windows XP Client using BackupPC. Since the 
> Windows-Box is NOT running Windows XP Professional, I don't want to use 
> smb as backup method, because I can not set detailed user rights (only 
> possible when using win xp prof.)
> 
> So I thought I'll take the same approach for backing up the windows 
> client that I used for backing up my linux server:
> 
> 1) I've installed cygwin on the client including openssh, rsync
> 2) I've created a password secured root user on the windows client
Can you point me to a how-to for #1 and #2?  I've seen a bunch on the 
internet and they're all different (and didn't work when I tried them).
> 3) The BackupPC-User on the server can login into the Windows-Root-User 
> without a password since I exhanged the public-keys
> 4) The windows-client can be found using nmblookup WIN-CLIENT-NAME and 
> also reverse nmblookup -a CLIENT-IP
> 5) The configuration file on the backuppc-server contains:
> 
> $Conf{FullPeriod} = 6.97;
> $Conf{IncrPeriod} = 0.97;
> $Conf{FullKeepCnt} = 2;
> $Conf{IncrKeepCnt} = 6;
> $Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsync';
> $Conf{RsyncShareName} = '/';
> $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = undef;
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/cygdrive','/proc','/tmp'];
> $Conf{XferLogLevel} = 1;
> $Conf{CompressLevel} = 3;
> 
> Problem: If I start the backup with the above configuration it takes 
> forever ... the client seems to work, but no data seems to be 
> tarnsferred. I though that the above configuration should just backup my 
> c:\cygwin-directory on the client (leaving out /proc and /tmp).
> Even after 40 minutes of heavy work (fan running at full speed) and even 
> if the cygwin-directoy has only 300 MB no data is transferred to the 
> backup client.
> 
> If I change    $Conf{RsyncShareName} = '/';
> to                $Conf{RsyncShareName} = '/home';
> 
> the backup is working without a problem (just backing up the cygwin-home 
> directories of course).
> 
> Any idea what is going wrong?
> I really would like to see a client config-file from you, if you're 
> using the same setup Cygwin+Rsync or what kind of setup you are using to 
> backup a win-xp to backuppc (without using samba).
> 
My guess is that your excludes are not working, though I can't see why 
based on your configuration.  Try excluding something when using 
$Conf{RsyncShareName} = '/home' to make sure that excludes are indeed 
working.

-Rob
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