Hi there, due to the rsync-cygwin-ssh problem when backing up Windows clients using 'rsync' as transfer, I tried to use 'rsyncd' through a ssh tunnel instead (since the Windows client can only be accessed via ssh).
I found other threads dealing with this topic (e.g. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=11482919), and all the hints there seemed to work fine: - a ssh tunnel from the backuppc server to the client is created - rsync is redirected to the localhost:port and this way connects to rsyncd-shares on the client - after backing up the host the tunnel is killed again However, this only works when I manually setup the ssh-tunnel, call BackupPC_dump <host> and tear down the tunnel afterwards. But if I want the tunnel to be set-up by $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} = 'ssh -L 5009:localhost:873 -N -f [EMAIL PROTECTED]'; the tunnel is created - and the dump is waiting... it simply does not continue until the ssh-tunnel is killed (from another shell e.g.). Then the backup of course fails because the tunnel is not there and rsyncd cannot be contacted. I also tried putting the ssh -L ... command in another script: host_prepare.sh: ssh -L 5009:localhost:873 -N -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] echo Tunnel to host was created -- and it shows that the echo command, like any other command after the ssh-command is still executed, which tells that ssh is started in the background, but the dump will pause after the script has finished. Also, using & instead of the -f option with ssh has no effect. So my question is: How can I make the DumpPreUserCmd start the ssh-tunnel in the background and return so the dump can begin while the tunnel is there? I think it could have something to do with the way Perl executes commands, maybe it always waits for all child-processes to end? I really hope someone could give me a hint how to solve this! Thanks a lot, Tristan ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
