Hi Anandx,

anandx wrote:

>> There is a cygwin+rsync package available on the backuppc sourceforge
>> site, which can make it very easy to install rsyncd. If you don't need
>> rsync for anything else, and are happy to use rsyncd instead of
>> rsync+ssh, then I've found this to be a good solution.
>>
> Saw the package, and after reading the readme, it sure wouldn't be a problem to install it. I have a question on this, enabling the rsyncd on windows machine, does it arise any security issues of any kind ?

Yes, rsyncd doesn't encrypt the file transfer and the authentication is
less secure than ssh. You can allay these by setting up rsyncd to only
allow local connections and then using an ssh tunnel for the transfer.
For a guide, see http://www.cs.umd.edu/~cdunne/projs/backuppc_guide.html

 > Btw any ideas if Backuppc can be configured to backup certain hosts
at different intervals and certain at different ? Basically i want a
machine to be backed up daily and keep 7 days backup, then 4 weekly
backups and no monthly and then another one, i only want the monthly
backups.

Absolutely. The schedule settings in the CGI interface allow easy
individual client settings for full backups: FullPeriod (time between
backups) and FullKeepCnt (the number of backups to keep, which can be
exponential over time). Similar settings are for incremental backups.

Cody

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