Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC and removable drives

2005-08-26 Thread tmassey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/25/2005 10:27:33 AM: Hi all, I am wondering if any one know if backuppc will work with removable drives that I can swap out every so often. I want to be able to do my backups on these drives and be able to take these drives off site so that in case of

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up unsharable windoze directories

2005-08-26 Thread Rainer Zocholl
[EMAIL PROTECTED](Marty) 25.08.05 19:22 I'm looking for a way to back up the Documents and Settings directories on a Windows XP box on my network, and rsyncd is not currently an option. I tried without success manually enabling sharing. The user must have the right to enable sharing. I would

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up unsharable windoze directories

2005-08-26 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 10:44, Rainer Zocholl wrote: One possible solution I considered is Hidden Administrative Shares, e.g. C$ for a C drive. I've never gotten C$ to work, You must use an admintrative account. That account must have the right to log on remotely. Yepp. Windows permissions

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up unsharable windoze directories

2005-08-26 Thread Marty
Les Stott wrote: with the rsyncd that you download from the backuppc sourceforge download page you just extrat to c:\rsyncd, configure the rsyncd.conf and double click service.bat to start and run it as a service. Thats it! Thanks, that sounds a lot simpler than the Cygwin-based approach I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up unsharable windoze directories

2005-08-26 Thread Rainer Zocholl
[EMAIL PROTECTED](Marty) 25.08.05 22:34 Les Stott wrote: Marty wrote: I'm looking for a way to back up the Documents and Settings directories on a Windows XP box on my network, and rsyncd is not currently an option. I tried without success manually enabling sharing. Why is rsyncd not

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up unsharable windoze directories

2005-08-26 Thread Marty
Rainer Zocholl wrote: OTOH: Share a folder called backup. Do on some anachron base ntbackup to that folder. ntbackup can be runeasily in batches/scheulers. save the folder were you want. (I am waiting for notebooks with 2 disks or real big PCMCIA/PCI-Express Harddisks...) ntbackup comes with

Re: [BackupPC-users] $Conf{FullKeepCnt} with $Conf{FullPeriod} set to -1

2005-08-26 Thread Ralf Gross
Craig Barratt schrieb: Ralf Gross writes: I schedule backups exclusively with cron with this option and crontab entries. $Conf{FullPeriod} = -1; 5 20 * * 5 /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup zorg zorg root 1 /dev/null 21 5 20 * * 1-4

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up unsharable windoze directories

2005-08-26 Thread Rainer Zocholl
[EMAIL PROTECTED](Les Mikesell) 26.08.05 11:07 On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 10:44, Rainer Zocholl wrote: One possible solution I considered is Hidden Administrative Shares, e.g. C$ for a C drive. I've never gotten C$ to work, You must use an admintrative account. That account must have the right