Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows examples

[Les Stott]

Tom Trelvik wrote: Looking through the list archives, I can see things like this have been discussed plenty before, but I couldn't find a straightforward "this is a good working solution" kind of post, so I hope you guys don't mind my asking. Can someone share a sample host config file to back up a windows machine using either rsync or rsyncd (and if rsyncd, could you share the corresponding rsyncd.conf as well)? I don't want to open up the entire hard drive with samba because that's more of a security risk than I'd like to take on a laptop that will also spend time on untrusted networks. Thanks! Tom Hi Tom, rsyncd is a great option. We still use it to "share" the c drive, but hard code it so that only the backuppc server can get to it. Also we turn off listing so that you cant browse a share list. Aswell it not like users can browse "network neighbourhood" to see an rsync share. You could take it to the next level and configure rsyncd share passwords but if your server and client pc's are all internal you shouldn't need to do this. Sample rsyncd.conf on client........ use chroot = false max connections = 20 log file = c:/rsyncd/rsyncd.log pid file = c:/rsyncd/rsyncd.pid lock file = c:/rsyncd/rsyncd.lock [cdrive]     path = c:/     comment = C Drive     strict modes = false     hosts allow = 192.168.1.1     read >     list = false Sample backuppc config.pl....(only approriate values shown) $Conf{RsyncShareName} = ['cdrive']; $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = { 'cdrive' => ['Documents and Settings', 'rsyncd' ], # these are for 'c' share }; This effectively only catches the Documents and Settings folder, which is probably all you want. Hope that helps. Regards, Les