Re: [BackupPC-users] backup Windows10 clients

2020-10-26 Thread Kent Tenney
That did it. Could have sworn I'd tried that ... evidently not! (in my little head /cygdrive implied a full cygwin install) Thanks, Kent On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 7:31 PM Michael Huntley wrote: > Try /cygdrive/c/users/ktenny > > Cheers! > > On Oct 22, 2020, at 4:47 PM, Kent Tenney wrote: > > 

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup Windows10 clients

2020-10-22 Thread Michael Huntley
Try /cygdrive/c/users/ktenny Cheers! > On Oct 22, 2020, at 4:47 PM, Kent Tenney wrote: > >  > BackupPC 4.4, > cygwin-rsyncd-3.1.2.1 > > I've been trying for some time to get this working, > been unable to get past a chdir error > > in C:\rsyncd\rsyncd.log: > rsync: chdir //users/ktenney fa

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup Windows10 clients

2020-10-22 Thread Kent Tenney
BackupPC 4.4, cygwin-rsyncd-3.1.2.1 I've been trying for some time to get this working, been unable to get past a chdir error in C:\rsyncd\rsyncd.log: rsync: chdir //users/ktenney failed : No such file or directory (2) Backuppc: @ERROR: chdir failed I've tried every spelling of path = ... in

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup Windows10 clients

2020-10-04 Thread Michael Stowe
There are a few problems to solve: open files, permissions, and the transfer itself. The transfer, IMHO, is the easy part. I've currently settled on a combination of Windows Linux subsystem for sshd, then escalate the privileges and transfer the shadow copies. It has proven reliable and

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup Windows10 clients

2020-10-04 Thread Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users
The recommended approach for Windows clients is installing cygwin-rsyncd . Craig On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 1:57 AM Sebastian Schieke wrote: > Dear Backuppc Users, > > we have been trying to backup all our Windows 10 notebooks with > backuppc. The