Ok, thanks for (all) the information, now I understand the concept of Rsync/SambaShareName, BackupFilesExlude and BackupFilesOnly. You really helped me out, Thanks :-)
But unfortunately I've discovered another problem: The backups of my windows xp clients take forever (nearly), while the backup of the server (where backuppc is runnning) works fine. I've done some testing and figured out that it is NOT an network issue, since I get the full speed when executing rsync from the windows xp client. I have transferred the cygwin directory of one of the clients (approx. 300 MB): On Windows-Client: rsync -av -h --progress /cygdrive/c/cygwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ => works fine! On Server: rsync -av -h --progress [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cygdrive/c/cygwin ~/ => takes very, verrrry long. Browsing the web, I've found out that it may have something to do with the Cygwin Enviroment Variables. I'm currently using the suggested settings: CYGWIN = ntsec tty. Question: 1) So what may be the problem? What is the best way to back up windows xp clients? I don't understand that running rsync from CLIENT-to-SERVER runs fine, but running from SERVER-to-CLIENT is really slow. 2) Is is better to use Samba to backup windows clients? Some clients are running XP (Home), so that I can not set custom file permissions to allow access only the backuppc-user not to other clients in the network. 3) Will rsyncd instead of rsync bring better performance? Kind regards - Kurt PS: To give at least something back to this community, I thought about writing down my experiences (from a beginners point of view), I hope this is the right place: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net/CommonConfigurationIssues If not feel free to flame me :-0 Bowie Bailey wrote: > Your RsyncShareName is '/', but your are specifying exclusions for the > 'c' share. Try this instead: > > $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { > '/' => ['/Dokumente und Einstellungen/*/NTUSER.DAT', .... > }; ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
