On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:04 AM, royden yates <royden.ya...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 21:38 +0530, Pramathesh Ambasta wrote:
> > I am very new to backuppc. I have made an installation on a Ubuntu
> > Server (8.04). The plan is to backup some machines on a small network
> > which has winXP machines. I want to know if it is possible to use
> > rsync + windows services for unix (instead of cygwin) on the windows
> > box and if there are any pointers for this.
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > Pramathesh
>
>
> Yes, using SFU/Interix works quite well as long as you deploy rsyncd (&
> ssh tunnel) and not rsync over ssh, as the latter displayed the same
> issues as did Cygwin (Interix rsync is v. 2.6 or so). The debian port of
> Interix (see URL below) is the same as far as rsync goes and so offers
> no advantage over the std Interix.
>
> Also, remember to pay attention to the hotfixes as one or two are
> recommended (NB the DEP one!) and what is what can be confusing. See
> http://www.debian-interix.net/hotfixes/ and
> http://www.thinkers.org/~rodney/i_bugs.php<http://www.thinkers.org/%7Erodney/i_bugs.php>for
> good summaries.
>
> The key is to get SFU properly installed (do it as the REAL pc
> Administrator account NOT any other with Administrator rights), install
> openssh and rsync and get them set up, the former for shared key
> authorization and the latter as a daemon, with a secrets file etc.
> Thereafter, the backuppc bit is no different to any *nix box client.
>
> I still run one client on Interix whilst others I have switched to
> recent cygwin implementations because of the presence of rsync v 3.0.4
> and associated improvements. CopSSh and CwRsync are two maintained
> minimal footprint Cygwin implementations of openssh and rsync
> respectively. See http://www.itefix.no/i2/copssh and
> http://www.itefix.no/i2/cwrsync. A full Cygwin install is a little more
> work getting openssh and rsync setup, but offers easy updating.
>
> Aside of the problem with Interix and straight rsync, the only real
> advantage of Interix over Cygwin is perhaps a modest speed advantage.
>
> regards,
>
> Royden
>
Thanks a lot for this detailed response and for all the invaluable insights.
Will try this *and* Deltacopy on different machines.
Regards
Pramathesh
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