On 11/14/2016 03:52 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> On 11/14 02:35 , Tim Evans wrote:
>> Would anyone be able to provide a sample 'host.pl' file for a Windows 7
>> client, to be backed up via rsync Server is Fedora 24, running
>> BackupPC-3.3.1-6.fc24.x86_64.
>>
>> I'm not clear on how/where to specify userid/password for the
>> client--equivalent of $Conf{SmbSharePasswd} = 'xxx' and
>> $Conf{SmbShareUserName} = 'xxx' used with SMB backup.
>
> Here's an example which I use as a template and modify for each new
> installation:
> $Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsyncd';
> $Conf{RsyncShareName} = ['cDrive'];
> $Conf{RsyncdUserName} = 'insertusernamehere';
> $Conf{RsyncdPasswd} = 'insertpasswordhere';
>
> ## exclude patterns for rsyncd are in config.pl
>
> ## Sometimes rsync/rsyncd yields md4 errors and SMB
> ## (really tar over SMB, I believe)
> ## must be used
> #$Conf{XferMethod} = 'smb';
> #$Conf{SmbShareName} = 'c$';
> #$Conf{SmbShareUserName} = 'Administrator';
> #$Conf{SmbSharePasswd} = 'adminpassword';
> #
Thank you, Carl. Can you elaborate on the syntax for
"$Conf{RsyncShareName} = ['cDrive'];"? Where is that share name set?
And how to make it analogous to the 'c$' SmbShareName?
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