Anand Gupta wrote: > > >> Anand Gupta wrote at about 04:11:05 +0530 on Saturday, December 20, 2008: >> > Now i need to setup a windows host. I do have a question on that though, >> the >> > cygwin-rsync package from sf states it doesn't have ssh on it, however >> from >> > the howto it looks to me ssh would be required. Any ideas on that ? >> > >> It's not required if you just use 'rsyncd' without an ssh tunnel >> (though rsyncd security alone is rather weak - just password >> protection and the data isn't encrypted). >> >> On the other hand, you have to be careful about using regular >> rsync-ssh on windows since many people report errors with hanged >> backups due to long or weird filenames in windows. This is a problem >> with rsync protocol 28 that has been fixed in protocol 30 -- >> unfortunately, backuppc uses perl-File-RsyncP which has not yet been >> updated to protocol 30. You can get around it by using rsyncd with or >> without a separate ssh tunnel. > > So is there a solution for this ? OR we are stuck with either to use > rsync without encryption or do ssh tunneling as recommended earlier. I > am already going to go mad over installing cygwin+rsync on so many > machines, the ssh tunneling package might be just over the edge :(
There are other ways to get encrypted connections: openvpn, stunnel, etc., but I doubt if any are substantially easier to set up than an ssh tunnel. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/