Re: [BackupPC-users] windows/scripts

2013-01-16 Thread Michael Stowe
> No, the main problem I've had is with winexe timeout on one specific > destination machine, however, I'm pretty sure that is a networking issue > (ie, there seems to be a flaky DSL connection in the way). I've tried to > add a few things to detect the timeout and kill winexe (because it > doesn'

Re: [BackupPC-users] windows/scripts

2013-01-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 8:13 PM, wrote: > > > > I installed cygwin on my windows server. When using cygwin I'm > atomatically logged in as backupPC (backupPC@serverName), which means that > I'll appear as cyg_server which is a memeber of administrators. > > Just because cyg_server is a membe

Re: [BackupPC-users] windows/scripts

2013-01-15 Thread backuppc
elrich wrote at about 08:38:40 -0800 on Tuesday, January 15, 2013: > "he problem (likely) is that ssh logs in as the SYSTEM (or equivalent) > user that doesn't have permission to run vss.exe. I get around that by > using a recursion script to escalate privileges via 'at'. I imagine > perhaps th

Re: [BackupPC-users] windows/scripts

2013-01-15 Thread Adam Goryachev
On 16/01/13 04:07, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Adam Goryachev > wrote: > >>> 5) openvpn + winexe + cygwin rsyncd >> probably more combinations also... Personally, I've used (and still use) >> items 1, 2 and 5. I feel the best option right now is option 5, since it >> all

Re: [BackupPC-users] windows/scripts

2013-01-15 Thread Michael Stowe
> Off-topic question: have you found any way to debug winexe problems? > I use it for some other automation running from CentOS5 and CentOS6 > hosts and find that it sometimes fails with a 'failed to install > service' error on the windows target but often running the same > command from the other

Re: [BackupPC-users] windows/scripts

2013-01-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Adam Goryachev wrote: > > 5) openvpn + winexe + cygwin rsyncd > > probably more combinations also... Personally, I've used (and still use) > items 1, 2 and 5. I feel the best option right now is option 5, since it > allows to do shadow backups, it is secure (tunne

Re: [BackupPC-users] windows/scripts

2013-01-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:38 AM, elrich wrote: > "he problem (likely) is that ssh logs in as the SYSTEM (or equivalent) > user that doesn't have permission to run vss.exe. I get around that by > using a recursion script to escalate privileges via 'at'. I imagine > perhaps that winexe allows for d

Re: [BackupPC-users] windows/scripts

2013-01-15 Thread Adam Goryachev
On 16/01/13 01:08, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:04 AM, elrich > wrote: >> hello, >> thank you for answering Adam. >> So what would you recommend me to use? >> Cygwin + open-ssh? >> Then how could I get the script to work on my windows server? > Cygwin ssh will make the windows s

Re: [BackupPC-users] windows/scripts

2013-01-15 Thread backuppc
elrich wrote at about 02:04:24 -0800 on Tuesday, January 15, 2013: > Hello Michael, > > first of all thank you for answering me. > I'm going to use winexe to test it out since the teacher wants us to stop > the service. > Whil reading the read me file, I saw that winexe is using the samba

Re: [BackupPC-users] windows/scripts

2013-01-15 Thread backuppc
elrich wrote at about 23:52:10 -0800 on Monday, January 14, 2013: > Hello Michael, > > first of all thank you for answering me. > I'm going to use winexe to test it out since the teacher wants us to stop > the service. > Whil reading the read me file, I saw that winexe is using the samba

Re: [BackupPC-users] windows/scripts

2013-01-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:04 AM, elrich wrote: > hello, > thank you for answering Adam. > So what would you recommend me to use? > Cygwin + open-ssh? > Then how could I get the script to work on my windows server? Cygwin ssh will make the windows system more linux-like. That is, in addition to t

Re: [BackupPC-users] windows/scripts

2013-01-15 Thread Adam Goryachev
On 15/01/13 18:52, elrich wrote: > Hello Michael, > > first of all thank you for answering me. > I'm going to use winexe to test it out since the teacher wants us to stop the > service. > Whil reading the read me file, I saw that winexe is using the samba protocole. > Since my windows server isn't

Re: [BackupPC-users] windows/scripts

2013-01-14 Thread Michael Stowe
> Good evening, > > I'm trying to backup a windows server (2003/2008) machine. > Thing is, everytime I have to do a backup I must stop some services > before. > I know that while using rsyncd backupPC has an option which is named > 'DumpPreUserCmd' and which allows to run a script before doing the