Re: [BackupPC-users] Config example for backing up linux host, local disk drive

2015-03-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote: > > > The drive is a WD 3 TB USB 3.0 drive formatted as ext4 in a single partition > (sdc1) and it is mounted (via /etc/fstab) at boot time. It isn’t intended > for any other purpose but backups. > > I’d like to do regular backups, wit

[BackupPC-users] Newest rsyncd for Windows -- "chdir" error

2015-03-16 Thread Zach La Celle
I've been using the older version of rsyncd on Windows machines with one issue: it doesn't handle long filenames. I wanted to try the newest version of the Cygwin rsync daemon, and installed 3.0.9 from the website. Now, when I try to connect, I get the following error: @ERROR: chdir failed rsync

Re: [BackupPC-users] Config example for backing up linux host, local disk drive

2015-03-16 Thread Philip Prindeville
On Mar 15, 2015, at 3:21 PM, Holger Parplies wrote: > Hi, > > Philip Prindeville wrote on 2015-03-10 16:49:30 -0600 [[BackupPC-users] > Config example for backing up linux host, local disk drive]: >> [...] >> I have a Linux desktop box with a WD USB 3.0 external drive which I want to >> use fo