bpb21 wrote at about 15:40:17 -0700 on Thursday, May 1, 2014: > Sorry if this has been asked and answered, but I'm having a hard time > figuring this out. > I've got a BackupPC server running what I believe to be fine (installed > backuppc packages from CentOS repos - CentOS 6.5 OS). > But, I can't seem to find any coherent instructions for setting up a client > on Windows 7. I've tried with cygwin:rsync and I'm getting errors (uniform > clients) like Unknown module '/' and inet connect: Connection timed out. > These are on two different PCs with identical configurations.
Sounds like you are using rsyncd (vs. plain rsync which makes sense if you are not using ssh). You need to set up /etc/rsyncd.conf with module names and permissions and /etc/rsyncd.secrets with a rsyncd password. > This is also all on an internal LAN, so I don't really need SSH. If that's > the only way to get it going then I could use SSH, but at the moment it > seems to be an extra step unnecessary in my current environment. > Are there any guides or how-to's out there for Windows 7? All the ones I've > found are either for Windows XP or have dead links at rather critical points > in them (or both). > Any help appreciated! This is a very promising solution, but I don't know > if it's Win7 compatible. Have you ever heard of this new amazing search engine called google??? Google: BackupPC windows 7 1. BackupPC Install Guide for Windows 7/Vista/XP Clients ... 3. BackupPC SetUp: with rsyncd on Windows XP without Cygwin Plus many, many other helpful posts... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free." http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs _______________________________________________ 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/
