BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Help with configuration for Win 10 client

2017-01-16 19:02:52
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Help with configuration for Win 10 client
From: "TE Dukes" <tdukes AT palmettoshopper DOT com>
To: "'General list for user discussion, questions and support'" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 19:01:22 -0500

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Porter [mailto:shiva AT sewingwitch DOT com]
> Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2017 9:20 PM
> To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Help with configuration for Win 10 client
> 
> On 1/15/2017 4:26 PM, TE Dukes wrote:
> > I don't get the part about the 'module'
> 
> Module is an rsync concept. It's like a Windows "share". In the rsync
server
> you specify your modules under bracketed sections. On my workstations I
> define a [C] section in rsyncd.conf that points at C:\.
> Then, on my Linux server, I specify that I want to back up the C module.
> 
>  From the BackupPC server, try running "rsync hostname::" and you should
> see the Win10 box respond with the list of modules you've configured.
> You can get a listing of the top-level directory of the C module with
"rsync
> hostname::C".
> 
> Here's my rsyncd.conf for a system with an F: drive to also back up, which
> shows up as the F module. (This has no security except for forbidding
writes.)
> 
> use chroot = false
> strict modes = false
> hosts allow = *
> log file = rsyncd.log
> #pid file = rsyncd.pid
> 
> # newer versions of rsync need this
> uid = 0
> gid = 0
> 
> # Module definitions
> # Remember cygwin naming conventions : c:\work becomes /cygwin/c/work
> # [C] path = /cygdrive/c read only = true transfer logging = no
> 
> [F]
> path = /cygdrive/f
> read only = true
> transfer logging = no
> 
> 
> ---
Hi,

I added the uid=0 and gid=0, restarted the ryncd server and did the rysnc
edukes1:: and got nothing.

I ran zenmap from the backuppc server to the Win10 box and port 873 is open.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks!!


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