Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up of Windows Client Machine

Le 27/07/2011 16:20, Alain Péan a écrit :
> Le 27/07/2011 10:46, jiahwei a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would need some guidance to installing samba on the windows Xp client 
>> machine so that I can do the backup on my Backuppc host which is running on 
>> Redhat.
>>
>>
>> Read some of the thread that it would require the cygwin. Can anyone tell me 
>> more about it?
>> Would appreciate much help.
>>
>> Thanks. =)
>>
>>
> Hi jiahwei,
>
> I think you have to learn some system administration... Samba is not a
> software to install on windows XP. In fact, SMB (Server Message Block)
> is a protocole that is used since at least 20 years by microsoft for
> "shares", that permit the exchange of data between windows machines
> inside a same workgroup/domain. Nothing to install. Just know that, by
> default, there exist "administative" shares for each partitions : c$,
> d$, ...
> Samba is a Linux/Unix software that was developped to simulate this
> protocol, and allow Linux/Unix machines to share data (and more), with
> windows machine. That is what is useful here.
>
> Cygwin is another method to access the data, using rsync or rsyncd. In
> fact, BackupPC can use four methods to backup the PCs : smb (for
> windows), rsync, rsyncd, or FTP. You can configure the method you want
> for each host using the web interface.
>
> Did you read the documentation ?
> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#step_5__client_setup
>
> Alain
>

Just a correction, the fourth method is tar, FTP method is just planned, 
if I remember correctly.

Alain

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