Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

free to edit it with your own experience. > > > > From: Anand Gupta [mailto:anand...@gmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 1:50 AM > To: General list for user discussion, questions and support > Cc: morto...@dgrmm.net > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

Original Message ---- > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for > creatingshadow copies and launching rsyncd > From: David Lasker > To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Cc: morto...@dgrmm.net > Date: Thu Apr 2 23:52:06 2009 > &

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

@dgrmm.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd Hi Dave, Have you tried to use the script for multiple drives on the same pc ? Any luck on that part ? Thanks and Regards, Anand Gupta Origin

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

Hi Dave, Have you tried to use the script for multiple drives on the same pc ? Any luck on that part ? Thanks and Regards, Anand Gupta Original Message Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creatingshadow copies and launching rsyncd

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

I'm a bit torn here. On the one hand, I want to encourage as broad usage as possible since I think it can be helpful to many people and it was not trivial (at least for me) to figure out the various 'recursion' tricks and hacks to make this all work on XP. On the other hand, I don't have the time

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

Chuck Peters wrote at about 23:25:06 -0400 on Thursday, April 2, 2009: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky > wrote: > > > > Chuck Peters wrote at about 10:12:40 -0400 on Thursday, April 2, 2009: > > > >  > First couple of lines: > >  > > >  > # Shadowmountrsync > >  > #

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > Chuck Peters wrote at about 10:12:40 -0400 on Thursday, April 2, 2009: > >  > First couple of lines: >  > >  > # Shadowmountrsync >  > # Copyright Jeffrey J. Kosowsky December 2008 >  > # Version 0.3.3 (April 2009) >  > >  > Copyright

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

We use WPKG http://wpkg.org/, which automatically handles, installs, updates and removal of software, as well as any other commands for creating "shares", running "netsh" commands to set passwords, or add software to the Windows firewall, etc. There are many "Silent Install" working examples as

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck Peters wrote: > > 2009/4/2 Jeffrey J. Kosowsky > > > > In general, your comments in fact have been very helpful in that you > are pointing out details that I didn't realize were non-obvious or > non-stan

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

Chuck Peters wrote: > The subject of the thread is "Fully automated script for creating shadow > copies and launching rsyncd." Perhaps someone could package it like > cwrsync and add a GUI configuration to it, then it would be closer to > fully automatic installation. And that brings up the ques

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

o: General list for user discussion, questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd Getting this installed still seems a little advanced - I'm not sure where all the pieces go. I'm sure I'm not the on

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd Chuck Peters wrote at about 10:12:40 -0400 on Thursday, April 2, 2009: > 2009/4/2 Jeffrey J. Kosowsky > > > > > In general, your comments in fact have been very helpful in that you > > are pointing out detai

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

Chuck Peters wrote at about 10:12:40 -0400 on Thursday, April 2, 2009: > 2009/4/2 Jeffrey J. Kosowsky > > > > > In general, your comments in fact have been very helpful in that you > > are pointing out details that I didn't realize were non-obvious or > > non-standard. For example, I wouldn

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

2009/4/2 Jeffrey J. Kosowsky > > In general, your comments in fact have been very helpful in that you > are pointing out details that I didn't realize were non-obvious or > non-standard. For example, I wouldn't have remembered to think of ssh > server as a requirement. So, feel free to keep sendi

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

David Morton wrote at about 23:40:25 -0500 on Wednesday, April 1, 2009: > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > I guess the current comments assume that someone is reasonably > > familiar with cygwin/gnu/bash. Anyone can feel free to add more > > Well, no, that's not the problem - It's just that it

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > I guess the current comments assume that someone is reasonably > familiar with cygwin/gnu/bash. Anyone can feel free to add more Well, no, that's not the problem - It's just that it wasn't listed as a pre-req. I wasn't ev

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

While not perfect, I believe that the script fairly well documents what you need to do -- just read through the comments at the head of the script and look through the Variables section to see what is defined and whether it matches what you have on your system. You can put the programs referenced

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > David Morton wrote at about 14:15:57 -0500 on Monday, March 30, 2009: > > David Lasker wrote: > > > I was trying to figure out the best way to deploy VSS with BackupPC on my > > > Windows XP PCs, and found this wonderful script. Thank you so much > Jeffrey > > > fo

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

David Lasker wrote: > The short story is that you need > to configure BackupPC to wake up only once per day, in order for wakeonlan > to work in a reasonable manner. That would be great for this particular system anyway, since I'd want it to only wake up at night. --

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

David Morton wrote at about 14:15:57 -0500 on Monday, March 30, 2009: > David Lasker wrote: > > I was trying to figure out the best way to deploy VSS with BackupPC on my > > Windows XP PCs, and found this wonderful script. Thank you so much Jeffrey > > for sharing it! > > Is it possible to d

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

David writes: > The short story is that you need to configure BackupPC to wake up only > once per day, in order for wakeonlan to work in a reasonable manner. That should be fixed in 3.2.0beta0: * Moved call to NmbLookupFindHostCmd in BackupPC_dump to after the check of whether a backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

wakeonlan to work in a reasonable manner. Dave -Original Message- From: David Morton [mailto:morto...@dgrmm.net] Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 12:16 PM To: General list for user discussion, questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

David Lasker wrote: > I was trying to figure out the best way to deploy VSS with BackupPC on my > Windows XP PCs, and found this wonderful script. Thank you so much Jeffrey > for sharing it! Is it possible to do VSS on XP Home? I have a location that I'd like to do VSS and getting them upgraded to

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

-Original Message- > From: Jeffrey J. Kosowsky [mailto:backu...@kosowsky.org] > Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:39 PM > To: General list for user discussion, questions and support > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating > shadow copies

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd David Lasker wrote at about 15:21:11 -0700 on Thursday, March 26, 2009: > I was trying to figure out the best way to deploy VSS with BackupPC on my > Windows XP PCs, an

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

David Lasker wrote at about 15:21:11 -0700 on Thursday, March 26, 2009: > I was trying to figure out the best way to deploy VSS with BackupPC on my > Windows XP PCs, and found this wonderful script. Thank you so much Jeffrey > for sharing it! > > I ran into (and solved) a few issues when depl

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

I was trying to figure out the best way to deploy VSS with BackupPC on my Windows XP PCs, and found this wonderful script. Thank you so much Jeffrey for sharing it! I ran into (and solved) a few issues when deploying version 0.3 of the script that I wanted to share, in the hope of making it easier

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

Updated version attached below: Version 0.22 I think the routine is pretty finished now and it has more than enough functionality for my own uses, so I probably won't be making many changes in the near future unless I hear about some serious bugs or compelling feature requests: Here is the changel

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

Am Sonntag, 14. Dezember 2008 schrieb Jeffrey J. Kosowsky: > shadow copies Amazing what can be done with shell scripting on windows. I will have to integrate a new windows host into our BackupPC Server in the near future. So Thanks for sharing this! regards, Andreas Micklei -- ___

Re: [BackupPC-users] UPDATED: Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

Updated version attached below: Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 15:52:56 -0500 on Friday, December 12, 2008: > The enclosed script (and a 1-line cmd.exe helper) cleanly and > automatically sets up shadow copies, mounts them, and launches the > rsync daemon without requiring any special config