Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommended transfer method for remote backups of win machines

2008-07-10 Thread dan
I dont know, but if you use deltacopy you are using a slightly dated version of rsync on a slightly dates version of cygwin's dlls which does work in bpc v3.0 I have abondon ssh tunnels for rsync in favor of pptp vpns on remote clients and I dont use any encryption on trusted networks. On Thu, Ju

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommended transfer method for remote backups of win machines

2008-07-10 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 07/09 06:23 , dan wrote: > for remote windows hosts, you are probably best advised to either use just > rsync via cygwin or deltacopy, or tunnel that over cygwins ssh or a seperate > VPN connection. Last I knew, cygwin rsync+ssh did not work due to a bug. Has this changed? -- Carl Soderstrom

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommended transfer method for remote backups of win machines

2008-07-09 Thread dan
for remote windows hosts, you are probably best advised to either use just rsync via cygwin or deltacopy, or tunnel that over cygwins ssh or a seperate VPN connection. for a remote backuppc server, what would you mirror back to? it wouldn't make much sense to mirror back to the 'primary' backuppc

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommended transfer method for remote backups of win machines

2008-07-09 Thread Les Mikesell
dnk wrote: > > Well I am thinking of a dedicated OpenVPN connection between my lan > and my data center. > > How do people find the backup times over an encrypted channel like that? If you the same encryption method, iti will at least match ssh. Anyway, once you have the initial copy, rsync

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommended transfer method for remote backups of win machines

2008-07-09 Thread dnk
On 9-Jul-08, at 11:47 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > The nicest alternative is to set up a VPN connection that tunnels/ > routes > between the office and remote subnets so everything works the same > as a > local connection. If you can't arrange that, you can set up openvpn > connections to each b

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommended transfer method for remote backups of win machines

2008-07-09 Thread Les Mikesell
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 07/09 11:26 , dnk wrote: >> What I plan to do is have a system running backupPC in a remote data >> center. Now for my linux clients/servers, it is a no brainer to use >> rsync over SSH, but I was curious what the recommended method would be >> to backup (s

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommended transfer method for remote backups of win machines

2008-07-09 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 07/09 11:26 , dnk wrote: > What I plan to do is have a system running backupPC in a remote data > center. Now for my linux clients/servers, it is a no brainer to use > rsync over SSH, but I was curious what the recommended method would be > to backup (securely) our windows desktops (in the

[BackupPC-users] Recommended transfer method for remote backups of win machines

2008-07-09 Thread dnk
Hi there, I am pretty much BRAND new to backuppc (in fact I have not even installed yet). I am currently reading the docs, wiki and so on. What I plan to do is have a system running backupPC in a remote data center. Now for my linux clients/servers, it is a no brainer to use rsync over SSH,