Re: [BackupPC-users] backup in a special scenario

2018-08-06 Thread Kris Lou via BackupPC-users
Michael is being too modest to link to his own implementation for Windows clients, so I'll do it for him: http://www.michaelstowe.com/backuppc/ Just a note: This leverages the administrative share (C$) via smbclient/winexe to kick off rsyncd on the client. As such, the backuppc server requires

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup in a special scenario

2018-08-05 Thread daggs
Greetings, > Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2018 at 4:09 PM > From: "G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users" > To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Cc: "G.W. Haywood" > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] backup in a special scenario > > Hi there, > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup in a special scenario

2018-08-05 Thread daggs
Greetings,   I'll look into it. thanks.   Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2018 at 3:37 PM From: "Guillermo Rozas" To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] backup in a special scenario Hi,   mmm, I'm not aware of a n

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup in a special scenario

2018-08-05 Thread G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users
Hi there, On Sun, 5 Aug 2018, daggs wrote: I have a windows installation running inside a kvm vm, for past experience, backup using the samba protocol is unreliable ... For more than a decade, using the SMB protocol, I've backed up some hundreds of Windows machines, and a fair number of SMB

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup in a special scenario

2018-08-05 Thread Guillermo Rozas
Hi, > mmm, I'm not aware of a native rsync protocol for windows, how can I set > this up? maybe it will solve all my issues without workarounds > It's described in the documentation here: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/BackupPC.html#Step-5:-Client-Setup All the information (and files)

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup in a special scenario

2018-08-05 Thread daggs
Greetings. >Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2018 at 9:55 PM >From: "Michael Stowe" >To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" >Cc: daggs >Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] backup in a special scenario >On 2018-08-04 10:55, daggs wrote: >&g

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup in a special scenario

2018-08-04 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2018-08-04 10:55, daggs wrote: Greetings, I have a windows installation running inside a kvm vm, for past experience, backup using the samba protocol is unreliable (mostly permissions issue which cause the backup to fail). This is probably why rsync is the protocol of choice for Windows

[BackupPC-users] backup in a special scenario

2018-08-04 Thread daggs
Greetings, I have a windows installation running inside a kvm vm, for past experience, backup using the samba protocol is unreliable (mostly permissions issue which cause the backup to fail). so I'v decided to try a different approach, I want to run a script on the vm's host prior to the