Anand Gupta wrote:
>
> 
>> Anand Gupta wrote at about 04:11:05 +0530 on Saturday, December 20, 2008:
>>  > Now i need to setup a windows host. I do have a question on that though, 
>> the
>>  > cygwin-rsync package from sf states it doesn't have ssh on it, however 
>> from
>>  > the howto it looks to me ssh would be required. Any ideas on that ?
>>  > 
>> It's not required if you just use 'rsyncd' without an ssh tunnel
>> (though rsyncd security alone is rather weak - just password
>> protection and the data isn't encrypted).
>>
>> On the other hand, you have to be careful about using regular
>> rsync-ssh on windows since many people report errors with hanged
>> backups due to long or weird filenames in windows. This is a problem
>> with rsync protocol 28 that has been fixed in protocol 30 --
>> unfortunately, backuppc uses perl-File-RsyncP which has not yet been
>> updated to protocol 30. You can get around it by using rsyncd with or
>> without a separate ssh tunnel.
> 
> So is there a solution for this ? OR we are stuck with either to use 
> rsync without encryption or do ssh tunneling as recommended earlier. I 
> am already going to go mad over installing cygwin+rsync on so many 
> machines, the ssh tunneling package might be just over the edge :(

There are other ways to get encrypted connections: openvpn, stunnel, 
etc., but I doubt if any are substantially easier to set up than an ssh 
tunnel.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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