Thanks Rod, I haven't had a chance to test it yet. But I looked inside your xp script - at the way you do the shadow copy. I've been looking for something like that for quite a while. This is really good.
Regards, Tomas Rod Dickerson wrote: > Well, I am calling it quits because of Vista. I have a pre-script that works > with WinXP, which does the following: > > 1. Check to see if client (rsync) is installed, and if not, install it. > 2. Open firewall ports for rsync > 3. Create a snapshot and mount it to X: > 4. Start rsyncd, exporting X: > 5. Check to make sure that processes are running > 6. Turn over to BPC for backup > > After the backup, the post-script does the following: > > 1. Tear down the snapshot (kill rsync processes) > 2. Remove the X: drive > 3. Close firewall ports for rsync > > The install_client script does the following: > > 1. Verifies that the target hostname matches the requested hostname. This is > important because of the next step. > 2. Establishes a unique password for rsync for the machine. This is put into > rsyncd.secrets and hostname.pl for the client. This is to ensure that BPC > will not back up machine X thinking it is machine Y. I know there is some > name checking when the backup starts, but dynamic name registration is not > always perfect. > 3. Copies rsync and other binaries to c:\rsyncd on the client. You need to > put the rsyncd.tar.gz files in /home/backuppc/backuppc_client or some other > directory (but change the scripts accordingly). You also need to get the > rest of rsync from the backuppc.sourceforge.net page; this tar only includes > my config files for reference. I couldn¹t include everything because the > file size is too big for the list. > 4. Sets the host password in /etc/BackupPC/pc/hostname.pl > > You will also need the following things installed on the server, which you > may not have: > > Apg password generator. Used by install_client. This should be available > in apt, yum, etc. > Winexe allows remote command execution on windows hosts from Linux. > http://eol.ovh.org/winexe/ > > I really wanted to get kerberos authentication working, but this is where I > got stuck. It seems to work fine when running BackupPC_dump when su¹d to > backuppc, but when I run it from the daemon (via the CGI page), it hangs > when running winexe. There seems to be some issue with winexe when it is ran > this way, and I am not sure if it is the way that Perl calls shell commands, > or if it is BackupPC. I tried to debug it, but I am not a programmer (as you > will see in my scripting genius) nor am I am Perl guru. I am submitting my > work so that others may be able to figure it out, because I am stuck and at > this point I can¹t continue using BPC (sadly). One main reason why I wanted > to use Kerberos is because it doesn¹t require the backuppc user¹s > credentials to be stored in clear text on the file system, and also because > Vista seems to have some issue with using NTLM. I found that when I tried to > connect to Vista over a WAN connection using NTLM sometimes it would time > out, yet using Kerberos (from the shell) worked every time. So there must be > something strange about how Vista uses NTLM or something, because I never > had these problems with XP. But if you are going to back up local Vista > clients and don¹t mind saving credentials on the local filesystem in clear > text (which, by the way, must have local admin rights on the hosts that it > backs up), then you can use this with NTLM. If you are in a Windows AD > environment and want to try Kerberos auth, you will need to use this guide: > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Bb742433.aspx, specifically the > section about ³creating a service instance account.² > > There is one additional caveat when backing up Vista using VSS. I couldn¹t > find a way to create a snapshot on the fly with Vista, so I was just using > the last snapshot created by the system. Vista is configured to create a > system snapshot once per day, so I figured that was good enough. It is > easier than with XP, which requires a process to keep the snapshot alive, > which is why I was firing up rsyncd using my rsync scripts. You can create > one snapshot with XP, but once the application that is using it goes away > the snapshot disappears; there is no way to make ³persistent² snapshots as > with Vista and Windows 2003. Anyway, this is getting kind of long, so if > anyone has specific questions please let me know. Also, if you do get this > working please let me know so I can continue with BPC. Thanks > > Rod > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. 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