Sorry to be so late to the party but I have been rather distracted this
least week.
I have a similar setup at home and use rsync very easily. My network is
friendly enough so on the backup host "ra" I have this in the /etc/fstab
//bastet.home.brnikat.com/c /mnt/bastet cifs
defaults,auto,rw,soft,credentials=/etc/backuppc/bastet-credentials 0 0
where
bastet is the Wndows machine.
/etc/backuppc/bastet-credentials contains these lines
username=jean
password=Brnikat
domain=BRNIKAT
and I am giving away no secrets because my wife Jean died almost two
years and neither her account nor bastet are now in existence.
ra is then backed up in the normal way, by rsync, including /mnt/bastet
and excluding anything else mounted below /mnt.
It worked very well for me though I now see it would be more elegant to
mount the CIFS system somewhere other than /mnt and exclude that
directory entirely.
Motto: Sometimes you should think about backing up a machine's
filesystem and not a machine per se,
As always, YMMV.
Paul
On 20/01/2024 05:19, Les Mikesell 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.
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