Wouldn't it be easier to just follow the guide located on the wiki? There is step-by-step how to configure rdiff-backup on windows as a client to linux server. Or do you want windows to be the server?
2009/5/7 Patrick Nagel <m...@patrick-nagel.net>: > Hi Chencho, > > On 2009-05-06 23:02, Chencho wrote: >> >> Now i want to develop an app (windows platform will be 99% users) to make >> this external incremental backups directly from the desktop, without >> office >> server. >> >> I'm not sure how configure ssh in each desktop to not ask about password, >> and i think the easiest way to do the backup is over ftp. >> >> Is possible make rdiff-backup work over ftp instead ssh? > > No, it's not possible. What I think would work (never did it though): > Install an SSH server on those Windows servers and then run rdiff-backup on > the backup server. Of course you have to set up key based authentication, > which is straight forward once you understand the basic principles of public > key authentication. Basically you create a key pair (private + public key) > on the backup server and copy the public key to all the SSH-enabled Windows > machines and put it into its allowed keys list (on Unix that works by > putting the public key in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys). You can now connect from > the backup server to all Windows machines without the need of passwords > (provided you use a non-passphrase protected secret key, which is not > recommended, but probably ok in this situation). > > Patrick. > > -- > Key ID: 0x86E346D4 http://patrick-nagel.net/key.asc > Fingerprint: 7745 E1BE FA8B FBAD 76AB 2BFC C981 E686 86E3 46D4 > > > _______________________________________________ > rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users > Wiki URL: > http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki > _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
