TAC Forums wrote: > Hi > > I have a Debian server running ssh which performs the job of a Backup Server. > > All the GNU/Linux workstations / servers on the network have a bash > script that run in the cron to rsync the data folders to the main > backup server at night. > > However, I am having difficulting finding an rsync binary for Windows > that can talk to a Debian ssh server to sync the files. > > The rsync tools available on the net appear to talk with a > Whitebox/Redhat/Fedora ssh server but I'm having trouble with getting > it to work on a Debian ssh server. > > Any ideas on what I should do to get this to work? Maybe I am using > the wrong rsync tool? Is there another rsync tool written for talking > to the ssh server of Debian?
I recently solved a similar problem. My objective was to backup a Windows XP machine on my home LAN onto a machine running Debian Testing. After a few thoughts, I realized it was more secure to let the Debian server query the XP box and do the backup, instead of the XP box initiating the talking to the Debian server to 'upload' a backup. This requires that rsync server be running on the XP box (and also openssh for security reasons). To do so, I installed the minimal Cygwin (the default installation) and added rsync, openssh, cron, zip, cygsrv (sp?, cygrunsrv?) and a few other packages (which may not be really related to rsync related stuff). In all, the Cygwin installation used around 110MB of disk space. I started up the sshd server and the rsync server. sshd service was made dependency of tcpip and my Zone Alarm service before it could work properly after reboots. I then made a bash script on the Debian server to do backups using rsync. I also generated ssh keys in the Debian machine (of root user) and exported the public key to the Windows XP machine. With this arrangement, I can now call the rysnc script in a cron job on the Debian machine and it backs up the XP box via ssh and passwordless login. Pretty neat, all these tools. The only problem I faced was while dealing with shortcuts and MS Office tmp files (they begin with $# or $~ or something like this). I am not sure, but when the user in question (on XP box) removed his shortcuts and cleaned up the left over MS Office tmp files, the backups were being done as expected and without any problems -- otherwise the rsync command was hanging. If you want more specific details, just ask. GL, ->HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
