-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] new to backuppc From: Jeffrey J. Kosowsky <[email protected]> To: General list for user discussion, questions and support <[email protected]> Date: 12/21/08 12:40 PM
> 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. So is there a solution for this ? OR we are stuck with either to use rsync without encryption or do ssh tunneling as recommended earlier. I am already going to go mad over installing cygwin+rsync on so many machines, the ssh tunneling package might be just over the edge :( -- Thanks and Regards, Anand ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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/
