Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: rsyncd as a service on Windows 8

Dan Johansson <Dan.Johansson AT dmj DOT nu> wrote on 10/27/2013 02:26:06 PM: > > Have you checked the Event Viewer? It usually shows you what's going on > > with rsync...

This seemed to have gotten missed. Is there anything in there? Rsync is usually pretty expressive in the Event Viewer...

Also, someone else mentioned about the possibility of suspend/hibernate. I don't back up clients, so all of my servers are up 24/7. I'd look carefully into that: I've found way too many applications that are unhappy about power saving.
> Tim, do you mind sharing the CMD-file?
Literally about 30 seconds of effort went into it... My rsync daemon is installed in a directory called rsyncd and contains folder: bin (which contains rsync.exe and needed DLL's), log (which contains the log, .pid, .lock, etc.), and etc (which contains rsyncd.conf and .secrets)

@ECHO OFF
REM Start Rsync Daemon v2
IF EXIST rsync.exe GOTO PATH_OK
ECHO You must start this script in the same directory as rsync.exe.
GOTO END
:PATH_OK
DEL ..\log\rsyncd.pid
START rsync.exe --config=..\etc\rsyncd.conf --daemon --no-detach
:END

I'm not worried about deleting an active .pid file (if it's even possible) because I don't use it for anything, and if a second rsync daemon tries to start it won't because it won't be able to attach to port 873.

Like I said, not much effort in the script, but it works.

I don't use services for starting my rsync daemon. I use a scheduled task set to start the daemon on startup *and* every hour. That way if it *does* crash, the daemon will restart automatically.

I certainly could make the script much smarter: check to see if there's an rsync process already running, etc. But this little bit of effort works perfectly for my needs.

Tim Massey


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