On 16/01/13 01:08, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:04 AM, elrich > <[email protected]> wrote: >> hello, >> thank you for answering Adam. >> So what would you recommend me to use? >> Cygwin + open-ssh? >> Then how could I get the script to work on my windows server? > Cygwin ssh will make the windows system more linux-like. That is, in > addition to the encrypted connection, you can install a bash shell and > the usual unix-like tool set. If you want to work in a mixed > windows/linux environment it has the advantage of letting you use ssh > connections/commands everywhere. > > Openvpn just gives you a secure network connection tunneled through > the internet. You get a different IP address that looks like a point > to point connection so you can keep the public network firewalled. > The advantage here is that you can use any other network tools over > the VPN too - like vnc or remote desktop in addition to winexe and > rsync. > > Either approach will work - I'd pick whichever fits your usage better. > Yes, exactly.... You could use any mix of these things: 1) cygwin ssh + cygwin rsyncd 2) cygwin ssh + cygwin rsync 3) openvpn + cygwin rsyncd 4) openvpn + cygwin ssh + cygwin rsync 5) openvpn + winexe + cygwin rsyncd
probably more combinations also... Personally, I've used (and still use) items 1, 2 and 5. I feel the best option right now is option 5, since it allows to do shadow backups, it is secure (tunnel/vpn) and it also enables compression over the wan (openvpn) as well as rsync bandwidth optimisation. I also configure local scripts which are scheduled on the windows machine (usually cygwin bash scripts) to take the backup files produced by various commercial software in use (multi-gigabyte files) and split them (using cygwin split) into a large number of small files (depending on the customer, between 20M and 100M files), then let backuppc backup these small files. This allows for some small changes in a small number of the files for backuppc to still do file level de-dupe on 90% of the data (90% of the files contents do not change, the attrib files change because the timestamp changes, but that doesn't matter). Hope this helps.... Regards, Adam -- Adam Goryachev Website Managers www.websitemanagers.com.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master SQL Server Development, Administration, T-SQL, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS and more. Get SQL Server skills now (including 2012) with LearnDevNow - 200+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only - learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122512 _______________________________________________ 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/
