On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Michael Stowe
<mstowe AT chicago.us.mensa DOT org> wrote:
>
>> Can someone tell what the drawbacks of using cygwin/ssh/rsync on the
>> windows BackupPc clients ? I just tried it yesterday on windows xp and
>> it worked well. I believe this method of backup should also work on
>> 2008r2 servers?
>
> Drawbacks versus ... what?
>
> Windows in general has issues with file semantics, and its system of
> overcoming those is essentially to use VSS, the Volume Snapshot Service.
> For BackupPC, there have been two solutions developed, one that requires
> ssh, and one that instead uses winexe, which leverages samba.  The ssh
> solution encrypts in transit, but (naturally) requires the installation of
> ssh and the appropriate version of vshadow.  The winexe version has an
> installer which takes care of the client details, but requires
> winexe/samba installed on the BackupPC server.
>
> There are some minor functional differences in the implementations; the
> ssh version backs up ACL's (in one of two ways) and the winexe version
> handles backing up machines that are powered down.  However, the features
> aren't incompatible, and since both are scripted, can be added to either
> one.

Sorry about the confusing question. I was actually asking in general
versus all other methods available to backup windows using BackupPC.

Thanks for the information. It's certainly useful. I used method
mentioned at http://www.cs.umd.edu/~cdunne/projs/backuppc_guide.html
for my windows xp client. It didn't mention anything about volume
snapshot service or vshadow. I am not sure if I am using vshadow but I
do find a service in my windows xp named "Volume Shadow Copy " that is
set to manual. So I guess vshadow is not being used on when backup is
taken. Do I have to start vshadow and set to to automatic for future?

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