[EMAIL PROTECTED](Marty) 25.08.05 22:34
>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. >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. <evil mode> If you have administrative rights on the box (i assume you have or will be able to gain) it's absoletely no problem to install and start(!) software (including drivers) remotely. Noone will see what you are doing, and afterwards you simply remove the software silently ;-) I assume but never tried, that it might be possible for Group "powerusers" too. </evil> AFAIK you only need an rsyncd. Don't over emphisis of "installs" Mostly it's pure "woodoo". Many installer have an option to select howlong the install should sleep(!) after each of the 3 files to "install" so the user got the feeling he had bought a real big software... OTOH: Share a folder called "backup". Do on some "anachron" base "ntbackup" to that folder. ntbackup can be runeasily in batches/scheulers. save the folder were you want. (I am waiting for notebooks with 2 disks or real big PCMCIA/PCI-Express Harddisks...) ntbackup comes with every Windows XP. In XP home it's merely not installed because it does allow saving of system system, but does not warn, that a restore of "system" was not possible. An other advantage is: ntbackup uses MS "volume shadow copy system" (vss, not vsc) so it's no problem to backup teh usually locked .pst files of Outlook! Rainer ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
