Anand Gupta wrote at about 04:11:05 +0530 on Saturday, December 20, 2008: > Now i need to setup a windows host. I do have a question on that though, the > cygwin-rsync package from sf states it doesn't have ssh on it, however from > the howto it looks to me ssh would be required. Any ideas on that ? > It's not required if you just use 'rsyncd' without an ssh tunnel (though rsyncd security alone is rather weak - just password protection and the data isn't encrypted).
On the other hand, you have to be careful about using regular rsync-ssh on windows since many people report errors with hanged backups due to long or weird filenames in windows. This is a problem with rsync protocol 28 that has been fixed in protocol 30 -- unfortunately, backuppc uses perl-File-RsyncP which has not yet been updated to protocol 30. You can get around it by using rsyncd with or without a separate ssh tunnel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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/
