> Hi all.
>
> I'm in the process of bulding a large scale backup system in my
> institute based on backuppc. So far, things are going according to plan.
>
> We built up a backupPC server and a mechanism for seamlessly "install"
> the client on the machines to backup with to objectives in mind :
>
> - doing as secure as possible backups
> - making the client as easy to deploy as possible
>
> So we came out with a nice solution where the client package use a ssh
> service key to connect to the backuppc server which generates an ssh
> keypair, sends the public part to the client and registers the client in
> the configuration files.
>
> You can have a look if you are interrested :
>
> https://tucuxi.univ-brest.fr/projects/iuem-backuppc-client
>
> The deployment is very quick and easy on linux and MaxOS machines but
> now, I have to deal with the windows machines, and this is totally
> different. I managed to deploy a client but the process is fastidious
> and there is no way for my users to do this by themselves.
>
> I deployed the windows client according to the different docs on the
> backupPC Wiki (VShadow, rsync+ssh, cygwin).
>
> Question :
>
> Did someone already worked on an automated deployment on windows ?
> Has someone experience with one of those packaging system :
> * wix
> * nsis
> * izpack
> * inosetup
>
> Or would a perl script be more appropriate ?
>
> I would appreciate any pertinent input on the matter.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jonathan

Ease of deployment was one of the criteria for the solution here:

http://www.goodjobsucking.com/?p=62

Deploying a new client can be done entirely remotely on Windows with
credentials; the main complication is that different versions of "vshadow"
are required for different versions of Windows

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