a simpler solution is to use the free program Deltacopy, which is a nice
packaging of rsync with a GUI. You install it and then set it up to run as
a service as the admin user. You may select the directories to backup via a
GUI and start and stop the service via the GUI. This option works perfectly
with all windows versions that I have tried (XP-vista-s2003ts-s2008ts).
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jean-Michel Beuken <jean-michel.beuken <at> uclouvain.be> writes:
>
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> > I want to share my little experiment with Vi$ta...
> > Related with backup of Vista client with rsyncd, you must pay attention
> > of the "junction points"
> > (http://www.svrops.com/svrops/articles/jpoints.htm
> > ) and
> > the filesystem organisation of Vista
> (
> http://mutable.net/blog/archive/2008/03/31/vistas-virtualized-folders.aspx
> > ).
> > the avoid the problem of loop with the junction point and then, the
> > "path too long" in the name of the path,
> > we add exclusions (partial list,it's a exemple, it depends of the path)
> > in the rsyncd.conf :
> > ------------------------------------------
> > auth users = backuppc
> > secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets
> > read only = true
> > use chroot = false
> > transfer logging = false
> > log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log
> > log format = %h %o %f %l %b
> > hosts allow = 192.168.111.0/255.255.255.240
> > hosts deny = 0.0.0.0/0
> > strict modes = false
> > [USER_2H0.002]
> > path = /cygdrive/c/Users/
> > auth users = backuppc
> > secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets
> > exclude from = /cygdrive/c/cygwin/etc/exclude_user.txt
> > ------------------------------------------
> > and the "exclude_user.txt" file contains :
> > ------------------------------------------
> > - All Users
> > - Default User
> > - All Users/Application Data
> > - All Users/Desktop
> > - All Users/Documents
> > - All Users/Favorites
> > - All Users/Start Menu
> > - All Users/Templates
> > - Default/Application Data
> > - Default/Cookies
> > - Default/Local Settings
> > - Default/My Documents
> > - Default/NetHood
> > - Default/PrintHood
> > - Default/Recent
> > - Default/SendTo
> > - Default/Start Menu
> > - Default/Templates
> > - Default/AppData/Local/Application Data
> > - Default/AppData/Local/History
> > - Default/AppData/Local/Temporary Internet Files
> > - Default/Documents/My Music
> > - Default/Documents/My Pictures
> > - Default/Documents/My Videos
> > - Public/Documents/My Music
> > - Public/Documents/My Pictures
> > - Public/Documents/My Videos
> > ...
> > ------------------------------------------
> > (this config works with backuppc 3.1.0 under Linux/CentOS 5.2 and the
> > standard distribution of cygwin for the Vista machine)
> > regards
> > jmb
> >
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> Hi All;
>
> After messing with this I was finally able to get it working correctly.
> None
> of the other solutions provided seemed to work until & added the "***" as
> per
> the rsyncd man page which is the ultimate exclude. There does not appear to
> be
> any missing files in the backup set that have been filtered with these
> client
> side catch-all excludes. The BackupPC server rsync config still has the
> original WinXP exclusions on top of these client side excludes.
>
> rsyncd.conf on Vista client:
> [Users]
> path = c:/Users
> exclude from = c:/rsyncd/excludes.txt
> comment = Home Directories
> auth users = backuppc
> secrets file = c:/Users/username/rsyncd.secrets
> hosts allow = 192.168.0.250
> hosts deny = 0.0.0.0/0
> strict modes = false
> read only = true
> list = false
>
> excludes.txt content:
> - All Users***
> - Default User***
> - Default***
> - Administrator***
> - Public***
> - AppData***
> - Application Data***
> - Cookies***
> - Local Settings***
> - NetHood***
> - PrintHood***
> - Recent***
> - SendTo***
> - Start Menu***
> - Templates***
> - My Documents***
> - My Music***
> - My Pictures***
> - My Videos***
>
> Server: backuppc 3.1.0 on ubuntu 8.04.1 lts
> Clients: Vista Ent 32bit cygwin-rsync client
>
> Allen...
>
>
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