> Can someone tell what the drawbacks of using cygwin/ssh/rsync on the > windows BackupPc clients ? I just tried it yesterday on windows xp and > it worked well. I believe this method of backup should also work on > 2008r2 servers?
Drawbacks versus ... what? Windows in general has issues with file semantics, and its system of overcoming those is essentially to use VSS, the Volume Snapshot Service. For BackupPC, there have been two solutions developed, one that requires ssh, and one that instead uses winexe, which leverages samba. The ssh solution encrypts in transit, but (naturally) requires the installation of ssh and the appropriate version of vshadow. The winexe version has an installer which takes care of the client details, but requires winexe/samba installed on the BackupPC server. There are some minor functional differences in the implementations; the ssh version backs up ACL's (in one of two ways) and the winexe version handles backing up machines that are powered down. However, the features aren't incompatible, and since both are scripted, can be added to either one. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ 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/
