anandx wrote:
> Bowie Bailey wrote:
> > anandx wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > I guess on all the windows nodes, i would need to install
> > > cygwin+rsync. 
> > > 
> > 
> > You can also use Samba to backup a Windows share.  What I do on my
> > Windows boxes is create a read-only drive share that is accessible
> > to a single userid which is only used by BackupPC.  BackupPC can
> > then back up the drive from that share.  In order to do a restore,
> > you have to manually set the share to be writable before requesting
> > the restore. 
> > 
> 
> As mentioned earlier, i cannot share the drives on the windows
> machine. 

I must have missed that.  Ah well...  Just trying to save you the hassle
of installing cygwin everywhere.

-- 
Bowie

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