This is a great piece of knowledge, I encourage you to put this on the wiki.
also note that this can be done in reverse to have the remote machine create
the tunnel and issue a command over ssh 'BackupPC_servermsg or
BackupPC_dump' allowing remote clients to backup on their own schedule
without th
PROBLEM: Backup Hangs when using BackupPC / rsync over ssh to a Windows 2003
server.
WORKAROUND SUMMARY: Backup a Windows 2003 server using by using BackupPC's
Pre and Post commands to establish a forwarding ssh tunnel and a locally
bound Windows rsyncd service. I know what you are thinking - I d