Hi Michael Huntley, Michael Stowe, and everybody,

I overlooked your reply and only now saw it in the archives - also, I 
don't have your private mail address visible there, to reach out for a 
"thanks" privately:

> Stowe has been around forever.  I suggest you read his entire blog -
> very entertaining. 
> 
> Here's his BackupPC stuff: 
> 
> http://www.michaelstowe.com/backuppc/ 

Thanks a lot for the pointer; testing soon!


Cheers,
Alexander



On 2017-05-17 09:07 AM, 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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