Ok, so to summerize: You have a windows vista client that is connected via wired lan (100mbit) and backuppc is configured to use rsyncd as transport mechanism.
I have never use the version of rsyncd from the backuppc-page but always installed cygwin on the client machines, since it not only offers rsync but also other usefull tools like a ssh server, netcat etc. Since I started as newbie to, I've put some information about howto install cygwin/rsync etc. into the backuppc wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net/CommonConfigurationIssues Unfortunately this only applies to Windows XP/2000, you might have too look at other places in order to install cygwin on windows vista. What else you can try: 1) try to benchmark the network speed: On BackupPC Server: # nc -v -v -l -n -p 2222 >/dev/null On Windows client (make sure to have netcat installed) (cygwin)): # time yes|nc -v -v -n 192.168.0.8 2222 >/dev/null If you have Netmeter (or a similar tool) installed on your client you can now monitor the network speed. Netmeter can be downloaded for free here: NetMeter - a small, customizable network bandwidth monitoring program for free! Never tried with Windows Vista http://www.metal-machine.de/readerror/ You can also calculate your network speed following this guide: Using netcat to test network speed http://deice.daug.net/netcat_speed.html 2) Try to use rsync without backuppc and check if you get any error messages 3) Start the backup in verbose mode from the server terminal with # su backuppc -c '/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -i -v CLIENT' This will start the backup as user backuppc after entering the password for your backuppc user. 4) Send us your /etc/backuppc/CLIENT.pl (server) and /etc/rsyncd.conf, /etc/rsyncd.secrets (windows client) Good Luck - Kurt naigy wrote: > Hi Kurt, > Sorry I meant to put that in and I forgot. I am using rsyncd as it is an > internal network and I see no need for ssh as it is just another thing that > could go wrong. I am using the rsyncd-cygwin client from the backuppc > sourceforge page. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
