Tom Trelvik wrote:
Okay, I'm feeling kinda foolish now. All the information you guys
gave me seems very straightforward and helpful, as do the rsync &
rsyncd.conf man pages. But I can't seem to get rsyncd working, though
I'm pretty sure it's just me doing something dumb. It keeps failing
with "inet connect: Connection refused" (yes, the XP firewall is off).
connection refused means that rsyncd is not running or firewalled.
if your using rsyncd then under windows xp is has to run as a service
and be started. Verify that it is with the following at a command prompt...
netstat -a
you should see a line similar to below...
TCP <compname>:873 <compname>:0 LISTENING
if you've got it listening then you need to check any firewall software
you may have running and allow exceptions for 873/tcp
if your using 98 then you actually have to create a shortcut to startup
rsync as a daemon in the background.
Also make sure your config.pl on the server has matching entries for
rsync secrets and auth and share name and port etc etc.
Rsyncd is a daemon process. it listens for connections on port 873/tcp.
When backuppc is set to use rsyncd (and make sure you have this set
correctly in config.pl too, i.e. $Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsyncd';
) it uses rsync to connect to the rsyncd running on the client,
optionally using auth if specified.
rsync is entirely different as a transfer method in terms of
configuration because you need to remotely login to the client, using
something like cygwin ssh, in order to run the rsync commands.
rsyncd is by far the easiest method to configure, stick with that.
Regards,
Les
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