Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up unsharable windoze directories

Les Stott Fri, 26 Aug 2005 00:58:42 -0700

Marty wrote:

Les Stott wrote:

Marty wrote:

I'm looking for a way to back up the "Documents and Settings" directories
on a Windows XP box on my network, and rsyncd is not currently an option.
I tried without success manually enabling sharing.

Why is rsyncd not an option? we use it without drama all the time to backup Documents and Settings.

I do not own nor administer it so I have to have to as "noninvasive" as possible.
Changing some configuration settings is fine but I can't go much beyond that.

with the rsyncd that you download from the backuppc sourceforge download page you just extrat to c:\rsyncd, configure the rsyncd.conf and double click service.bat to start and run it as a service. Thats it!
We usually configure rsyncd on the windows box to share the C drive, but not be able to list the rsync share, and only accept connections from the backuppc server. We also make it read only, knowing that if we had to do a restore we would make it writable first.
use chroot = false
max connections = 20
log file = c:/rsyncd/rsyncd.log
pid file = c:/rsyncd/rsyncd.pid
lock file = c:/rsyncd/rsyncd.lock

[cdrive]
    path = c:/
    comment = C Drive
    strict modes = false
    hosts allow = 10.10.10.10
    read >     list = false

Then we make BackupPC only backup certain files under C drive....

Contents of file /mnt/backup/pc/diesel/config.pl, modified 2005-08-15 09:41:11

$Conf{RsyncShareName} = ['cdrive'];
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
       'cdrive' => ['*Outlook.pst', '*outlook.pst', '*/Local Settings/*'],
    };
$Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = {
       'cdrive' => ['Documents and Settings', 'rsyncd' ],      # these are for 'c' share
    };

I dont see untarring an rsyncd.conf and running it as a service any more invasive than setting up shares on all pc's. Rsyncd is a little more safer as you can restrict access to it without need for passwords as we do above, and users cant "browse" network neighbourhood and see shares as they would via smb.

I also need a more general solution because there are other XP boxes, laptops
that go on and off the network. I have even less control over those.

if you have a generic rsyncd setup then you can unzip it onto any pc from a shared drive and you're done. Each laptop/xp box takes less than 1 minute to setup! Then you do the magic config on the BackupPC Server and your done.

Regards,

Les

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up unsharable windoze directories

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