Re: [BackupPC-users] Trouble setting up backup to a Windows host

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com]
>Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 4:04 PM
>To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
>Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Trouble setting up backup to a Windows host
>
>[...]
>> Installed rsyncd to the Win-machine and the services now run. In BPC I set 
>> it
>> to use rsyncd and the RsyncdUserName and ditto password to one of the local
>> accounts with access to the folders I want to backup.
>>
>> The RsyncShareName I entered as /cygdrive/e/users/, which is where the user
>> folders are located. I tested that the $ RsyncdUserName really has access 
>> to
>> /cygdrive/e/users/.
>>
>> Now BPC says as follows, from the BPC Log file:
>>
>> 2010-03-25 14:30:57 full backup started for directory /cygdrive/e/users/
>> 2010-03-25 14:30:57 Got fatal error during xfer (Unknown module
>> '/cygdrive/e/users/')
>> 2010-03-25 14:31:02 Backup aborted (Unknown module '/cygdrive/e/users/')
>>
>> I'm not sure what it means by unknown module. Has this something to do with
>> the rsyncd.conf on the Win-client?
>
>Are you confusing rsync and rsyncd?  With rsync, you start the remote
>rsync via ssh and it sees the whole remote filesystem from the
>perspective of a remote user.  You can test access from the backuppc
>server with a command line like 'rsync -av user@host:/path'  If you
>don't specify a destination, you should see a directory listing (and
>current versions have an implied -essh argument). With rsyncd, the
>program is run as a daemon/service and only the paths explicitly
>mentioned in rsyncd.conf are exposed by their module names.  You can
>test this with a command like 'rsync -av host::module'  (note double colon).

I hope not. ;-) I tried rsync with ssh first, but that didn't work out 
("unable to read 4 bytes"), so I tried rsyncd instead. Now the sshd service on 
the Win2k3-machine refuses to start for some reason, it was off this morning. 
Sshd on the WinXP-box still runs...

The rsyncd test tells me:

root@mach012 ~/ [0]# rsync -avv xxx.yyy.zzz.nnn::starforge2_users
opening tcp connection to xxx.yyy.zzz.nnn port 873
opening connection using --server --sender -vvlogDtpr --list-only . 
starforge2_users
Password:
@ERROR: auth failed on module starforge2_users
rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at main.c(1296) 
[receiver=2.6.8]
root@mach012 ~/ [0]#

It feels like I'm getting at roads end with this. Things that work on one 
Win-machine doesn't on another, it's so, so, frustrating. 8-/
-- 
/Sorin

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