On Fri, 29 Mar 2019 at 11:01, Harald Hannelius <harald.hannel...@arcada.fi> wrote:
> > Hi all, > > I have a win 2019 server that I'd like to take backups from. I'm using the > OpenSSH version included in MS RSAT and I have succesfully created > SSH-keys > and I can verify that running the ssh-command indeed starts a rdiff-backup > in server-mode on the linux box. > > C:\Users\myself\Desktop\rdiff\rdiff-backup.exe -v9 "foobar" > "root@backupserver::/backup/win19" > Fri Mar 29 12:44:13 2019 Using rdiff-backup version 1.3.3 > Fri Mar 29 12:44:13 2019 Executing ssh -C root@backupserver rdiff-backup > --server > Fri Mar 29 12:44:13 2019 Client sending (0): ConnectionRequest: > Globals.get with 1 arguments > Fri Mar 29 12:44:13 2019 Fatal Error: > > Couldn't start up the remote connection by executing > > ssh -C root@backupserver rdiff-backup --server > > Remember that, under the default settings, rdiff-backup must be > installed in the PATH on the remote system. See the man page for more > information on this. This message may also be displayed if the remote > version of rdiff-backup is quite different from the local version (1.3.3). > > I have tried with both 1.2.8 and 1.3.3 on Windows to no avail. The > linux-server is a Debian 8 box with rdiff-backup 1.2.8. > > > > If I run the command "ssh -C root@backupserver rdiff-backup --server" I > get > a rdiff-backup in servermode on the linuxbox and typing characters results > in an python-error (which is expected). > > Please advice on how to find out why this doesn't work. > I think you haven't specified the key correctly. Here is an example using plink.exe (from https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html): rdiff-backup.exe --remote-schema "plink.exe -P 22 -ssh -i ""C:\path\to\privatekey.ppk"" %s rdiff-backup --server" C:/path/to/SourceData root@backupserver::"/backup/repo1" _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
