Stowe has been around forever.  I suggest you read his entire blog - very entertaining.

Here's his BackupPC stuff:

http://www.michaelstowe.com/backuppc/

I decided to use vssadmin and wmic to manage restore points.  I then use Cygwin and a bash script to mount the shadow copy for backup.

It's kludged together but works for me.

Cheers!

mph

On 2017-05-17 06:07, Alexander Kobel wrote:

Hi Michael,

On 2017-05-15 06:32 PM, Holger Parplies wrote:

Hi,

Michael Stowe wrote on 2017-05-15 09:58:08 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up Windows 7 Pro, not enough permissions]:
[...]

At any rate, these reasons are why I personally switched to a
combination of rsync and vshadow (to handle open files) and put together
a package to install the proper files on the client side.  [...]

would you mind to share that package, in whatever state it is? I use a
similar setup (Cygwin + rsync over SSH), but getting it to run is less
than intuitive.

I yet have to find a simple and fool-proof way of installing (don't talk
about keeping up-to-date even) that combination. It takes me less and
less time every time I do it (every few months), but it's still a pain.
IIRC, last time I had to refresh my mind on
- how to enable a cyg_server (appx. a.k.a. root) account with the proper
access rights
- how to open port 22 on the firewall, and (if need be) respond to pings,
- how to make the SSH server accept the BackupPC server pubkey (because
cyg_server has no home by default).
And that's even without vshadow.

Certainly not an approach that I can load off to the average Joe user,
say, "download and install ..., and I do the BackupPC server setup
remotely".


Cheers,
Alexander

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