I found a winexe 1.1 rpm and was able to install it on my Centos 6.5 system. It is now backing up Windows 8.1 and older.
# wget "http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home://GRNET://synnefo/Fedora_19/i686/winexe-1.1pre_20140109-4.2.i686.rpm" # wget ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/home:/kalyaka/CentOS_CentOS-6/i686/samba4-libs-4.0.6-97.2.i686.rpm # yum localinstall winexe-1.1pre_20140109-4.2.i686.rpm samba4-libs-4.0.6-97.2.i686.rpm # /usr/bin/winexe -V winexe version 1.1 This program may be freely redistributed under the terms of the GNU GPLv3 Cheers Mal On 26/08/14 02:33, Kris Lou wrote: > As an aside, the Winexe solution is nice in that all backups are initiated > via your BackupPC server and do not require instances of > cygwin to be running as a service on your client, as it is activated on > demand. > > That being said, you will likely need to compile it from source in order to > use on Windows 8.1 clients (at least for a CentOS 6 > host). Older versions of winexe will still work with Windows 8 (and I don't > have any 2012 boxes, so can't verify there). > > > Kris Lou > k...@themusiclink.net <mailto:k...@themusiclink.net> > > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 6:49 AM, <backu...@kosowsky.org > <mailto:backu...@kosowsky.org>> wrote: > > Michael Stowe wrote at about 08:16:09 -0500 on Monday, August 25, 2014: > > > But I read that some other users use the Volume Shadow Copy Service > > > which seems to be more reliable > > > > (http://urkomasse.blogspot.it/2012/10/using-backuppc-with-windows-server-2008.html). > > > > The volume shadow copy service doesn't back up anything, it simply > > provides a way of reading open files, which is otherwise semantically > > prevented by Windows -- as well as supporting VSS providers which > ensure > > that data is in a consistent state, which can be more specialized for > > applications like SQL Server. > > Beyond just allowing access to open files and ensuring consistent > state, VSS also gives you a system point-in-time "snapshot" which is a > helpful notion for backups and would be missed by rsync alone where > files may be added/deleted/changed during the backup process itself. > > Perhaps part of the OP's confusion is that VSS is an integral part of > many vendor backup solutions (including Microsoft's native backup > application). > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Slashdot TV. > Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. > http://tv.slashdot.org/ > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > <mailto:BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Slashdot TV. > Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. > http://tv.slashdot.org/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/