I just setup backuppc 3.1.0 on a Debian system I am using it to backup several Debian machines and one Windows XP (using rsyncd and cygwin from the Backuppc Sourceforge site). I ran into a few issues that prompted some questions:
1. Windows XP SP2 backup using cygwin-rsyncd-2.6.8_0 I had to set strict modes = false to get rsync to work on the Windows machine (running as a service). If not, I got an authorization error. Since rsyncd is running as a service, the notes said I have to make the secrets file readable only by the SYSTEM account. How do I do that? I was logged in as an administrator, and I clicked on the properties for the secrets file and made it read only. That did not work. I googled for some info on SYSTEM user for XP, but I never found a solution. 2. What files should NOT be backed up on a Debian Linux machine? I originally set BackupFilesExclude = /proc, /mnt, /dev, /cdrom, /floppy, /lost+found, /media, /var/lib/backuppc, and then started a full backup. I got lots of errors (~10,000), and the log file shows most of them (all - too many to count!) were confined to /sys. Should /sys be excluded as well? I am not enough of a Debian/Linux guru to know if this is a directory I should exclude or not. It seems that it should be excluded based on what I have read about it, but I just wanted to check with the experts. Are there any other directories that should be excluded from a "normal" Debian installation? Some of the machines are servers for tomcat/apache, some are desktop machines running X. 3. Are there any Windows directories that should be excluded from a backup? The Windows machine is not a server, just a desktop with users. Thanks! Mark
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