On 2015-12-04 07:51, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 12/04 11:37 , David Raison wrote: >> The set-up is a Linux server that is supposed to back up the contents >> of >> a Windows 7 client via rsync over ssh. > > Don't try to do rsync+ssh on Windows, just use rsyncd. Maybe someone > else > has gotten rsync+ssh to work on Windows but AFAIK the conventional > wisdom is > that it doesn't work. (Someone probably knows why, but that someone is > not > me).
I understand that there's a set of scripts that overcome the various difficulties in getting rsync+ssh to work; I don't use them myself. I do use rsync, and winexe to handle shadow copies so I don't have to worry about open files and such. And I put together an installer package with all the pieces. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Go from Idea to Many App Stores Faster with Intel(R) XDK Give your users amazing mobile app experiences with Intel(R) XDK. Use one codebase in this all-in-one HTML5 development environment. Design, debug & build mobile apps & 2D/3D high-impact games for multiple OSs. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=254741911&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
