[BackupPC-users] A question about partial backups and fatal errors

2015-12-04 Thread David Raison
Good day, I would like to request you assistance, since I'm trying to understand the behavior of one of our backuppc instances and, if ever possible, find a way to solve it. The set-up is a Linux server that is supposed to back up the contents of a Windows 7 client via rsync over ssh. Now, we

Re: [BackupPC-users] A question about partial backups and fatal errors

2015-12-04 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 12/04 11:37 , David Raison wrote: > The set-up is a Linux server that is supposed to back up the contents of > a Windows 7 client via rsync over ssh. Don't try to do rsync+ssh on Windows, just use rsyncd. Maybe someone else has gotten rsync+ssh to work on Windows but AFAIK the conventional

Re: [BackupPC-users] A question about partial backups and fatal errors

2015-12-04 Thread Kris Lou
Here's mine: If I recall, just add additional lines to backuppc.cmd/vrsync.cmd/rsyncd.conf for additional drives. I'm not 100% sure about this, but I'd imagine it's something like what I have below. Mine is edited for in-place rsync restores (at your own risk!), but you get the point. Also, I'm

Re: [BackupPC-users] A question about partial backups and fatal errors

2015-12-04 Thread Timothy J Massey
Michael Stowe wrote on 12/04/2015 04:07:34 PM: > I do use rsync, and winexe to handle shadow copies so I don't have to > worry about open files and such. And I put together an installer > package with all the pieces. Funny you should mention that... I really

Re: [BackupPC-users] A question about partial backups and fatal errors

2015-12-04 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2015-12-04 07:51, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 12/04 11:37 , David Raison wrote: >> The set-up is a Linux server that is supposed to back up the contents >> of >> a Windows 7 client via rsync over ssh. > > Don't try to do rsync+ssh on Windows, just use rsyncd. Maybe someone > else >

Re: [BackupPC-users] A question about partial backups and fatal errors

2015-12-04 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2015-12-04 15:39, Timothy J Massey wrote: > Michael Stowe wrote on 12/04/2015 > 04:07:34 PM: > >> I do use rsync, and winexe to handle shadow copies so I don't have > to >> worry about open files and such. And I put together an installer >> package with all the

Re: [BackupPC-users] A question about partial backups and fatal errors

2015-12-04 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2015-12-04 15:39, Timothy J Massey wrote: > Michael Stowe wrote on 12/04/2015 > 04:07:34 PM: > >> I do use rsync, and winexe to handle shadow copies so I don't have > to >> worry about open files and such. And I put together an installer >> package with all the