I'm not sure if it's considered a good approach compared with the other
approaches mentioned but I find DeltaCopy Server very easy and effective
to use on my Windows box.ย Rsyncd on BackupPC.
George
On 21/03/2026 15:27, Dan Johansson via BackupPC-users wrote:
Hello Falko and Ged,
Thanks for your feedback, that was the info I was looking for.
I can now try to configure my backuppc to backup my sole wintendo
laptop as well. ๐
Lets see how it goes...
Regards,
Dan
On 18-03-2026 18:32, Falko Trojahn wrote:
Hello Dan,
Dan Johansson via BackupPC-users schrieb am 18.03.26 um 16:02:
Some time ago, someone posted a script (or part thereof) for backing
up a Windows 11 host with BackupPC using native Windows tools.
I can not find the post/script among my emails ๐
Could someone please tell me where I can find those scripts?
may be you mean this?
> That's what I did more than five years ago, too - but we didn't use
> samba client for Windows backups with BackupPC, but this:
>
> https://www.michaelstowe.com/backuppc/
>
> and I remember it working very well. Especially that it did
> use shadow copies. I think we used Win10 these days.
>
> But later we switched to Urbackup client.
>
> If you don't have recent Windows versions at hand ...
> Usually it is possible to get some Windows developer edition VMs.
> Ah, we did use this: https://github.com/xdissent/ievms/
>
> Maybe some newer fixes are in the forks or pull requests like:
> https://github.com/xdissent/ievms/pull/343
>
> Just my 2ยข
> Falko
Link to the archive is here:
https://sourceforge.net/p/backuppc/mailman/backuppc-users/?viewmonth=202509&viewday=28
Another thread about Win 11 Backup was here:
https://sourceforge.net/p/backuppc/mailman/backuppc-users/thread/DM6PR20MB344338A189BF8697A04E4CC8DD242%40DM6PR20MB3443.namprd20.prod.outlook.com/#msg58747558
Best regards
Falko
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