That did it. Could have sworn I'd tried that ... evidently not! (in my little head /cygdrive implied a full cygwin install)
Thanks, Kent On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 7:31 PM Michael Huntley <mich...@huntley.net> wrote: > Try /cygdrive/c/users/ktenny > > Cheers! > > On Oct 22, 2020, at 4:47 PM, Kent Tenney <kten...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > BackupPC 4.4, > cygwin-rsyncd-3.1.2.1 > > I've been trying for some time to get this working, > been unable to get past a chdir error > > in C:\rsyncd\rsyncd.log: > rsync: chdir //users/ktenney failed > : No such file or directory (2) > > Backuppc: > > @ERROR: chdir failed > > I've tried every spelling of path = ... in rsyncd.conf > C:/Users/ktenney > /c/users/ktenney > ... > > How do I troubleshoot this? > > Thanks, > Kent > > > On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 11:59 AM Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users < > backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > >> The recommended approach for Windows clients is installing cygwin-rsyncd >> <https://github.com/backuppc/cygwin-rsyncd/releases>. >> >> Craig >> >> On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 1:57 AM Sebastian Schieke < >> s.schi...@leibniz-hbi.de> wrote: >> >>> Dear Backuppc Users, >>> >>> we have been trying to backup all our Windows 10 notebooks with >>> backuppc. The problem is, that the waay, described in the documentation >>> is not working at all. IMHO the szenario with ad-group "backup >>> operators" seems to be depricated. >>> >>> I wonder if it is possible to use the linux subsystem feature of >>> windows 10? Wouldn't it be much easier to just have ssh and rsync >>> installed on a windows client (in linux subsystem). Then the >>> configuration of backuppc would be as simple as backing up a linux >>> host. >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> Sebastian >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> BackupPC-users mailing list >>> BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>> List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users >>> Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki >>> Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> BackupPC-users mailing list >> BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users >> Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki >> Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ >> > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki > Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ > > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki > Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ >
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