It is safer and more versatile to setup ssh on your Windows machine and then just use 'rsync' Rsyncd uses minimal security and an incompatible config format from rsync-ssh.
Samual Flossie wrote at about 10:15:17 -0500 on Saturday, January 20, 2024: > There are several windows rsyncd install/config tutorials. Recommend > looking at this one: > https://kifarunix.com/backup-windows-system-with-backuppc-using-rsyncd/ > > rsyncd is at cygwin-rsyncd <https://github.com/backuppc/cygwin-rsyncd> and > can download Cygwin-Rsyncd installer from Releases page > <https://github.com/backuppc/cygwin-rsyncd/releases> and and install it on > your windows system > (https://github.com/backuppc/cygwin-rsyncd/releases) > > Sam > > On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 12:22 AM Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 4:06 PM Stephen Blackwell <zephod...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > My external backup drive died recently so I bought a NAS and installed a > > docker with Backuppc in it and set it up to backup my Linux box. Works like > > a charm. > > > > > > Now I want to add my Windows laptop to the list of clients. I was > > following this guide but I get this error in the XferLOG.bad.z file: > > > > > > > You are supposed to use the rsyncd backup method in backuppc with that > > setup, not rsync. The difference is that rsyncd expects to connect > > directly with a listening rsync daemon, not start one with ssh. > > > > -- > > Les Mikesell > > lesmikes...@gmail.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/
