No worries, I manage to find out how to setup a ssh trust between the
windows machine with FreeBSD machine succesfully :)
Tried rsync a file sucessfully.
I'm going to setup tb-rsync-vss tommorow and report the result here.

Thanks! :-)

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Satria Anamarta <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi Eric,
> I decide to try tb-rsync-vss.
>
> I download and install cygwin (make sure openssh and rsync installed)
> and tb-rsync-vss 32 bit.
> So far so good :-) Before configure tb-rsync-vss I believe I should
> configure rsync and ssh to sucessfully communicate between the Win7 and
> FreeBSD machine. Where should I start ? How to make them communicate before
> configure tb-rsync-vss ?
>
> This link seems not applicable for this case:
> http://www.dirvish.org/StevesWindowsGuide/Windows_Dirvish_Guide.html
>
> Any link or clue for me to start will be very appreciated.
>
> Thanks :-)
>
> Best regards,
> Anam.
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Eric V. Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> It might be possible, but I've never tried it. Personally, I would
>> reinstall all of the software from original media, then copy over the data
>> files.
>>
>> --
>> Eric.
>>
>> On Nov 21, 2012, at 9:04 AM, Satria Anamarta <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Eric,
>> I've read about tb-rsync-vss just now.
>>
>> From what I'm understand: to do a bare metal restore on Win7, could I say
>> that it's enough by install a fresh Win7 and then restore the latest
>> dirvish backup that created before using tb-rsync-vss ?
>>
>> Thanks :-)
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Satria Anamarta <[email protected]
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Eric V. Smith <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 11/21/2012 02:24 AM, Satria Anamarta wrote:
>>>> > Hello,
>>>> > Greeting from new member and a super newbie of Dirvish :-)
>>>>
>>> Welcome!
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks, Eric :-)
>>>
>>>>
>>>> > I would like to setup a Windows 7 as a client, so I download and
>>>> install
>>>> > HardBackup from Itefix. As this step I'm confuse. Where should I
>>>> start?
>>>> > Should I configure master.conf on this Windows 7 machine or not since
>>>> > the master.conf already configured in the FreeBSD (server) machine? Is
>>>> > HardBackup assume this Windows machine will act as a server? Should I
>>>> > install SSH server in this Windows 7 machine for it to backup
>>>> > automatically without asking for password?
>>>>
>>>> I've never heard of HardBackup, so I can't help there. Taking a quick
>>>> look at it, it doesn't seem to address the problem of backing up open
>>>> files on Windows.
>>>>
>>>> Here's my story on using dirvish on Windows:
>>>> http://trueblade.com/techblog/backing-up-windows-computers-with-dirvish
>>>
>>>
>>> Hey, I visited this url few days ago!
>>> And now I'm email with the author, great!
>>>
>>>
>>>> I wrote a Windows executable (tb-rsync-vss) to deal with the Windows
>>>> Volume Snapshot Service (VSS). See the above blog post for the history
>>>> behind it. It's in use daily on a number of machines, including Windows
>>>> instances in Amazon's EC2 cloud.
>>>>
>>>> For details on how it works and how to configure it, see the bitbucket
>>>> page:
>>>> https://bitbucket.org/ericvsmith/tb-rsync-vss
>>>>
>>>> It's all open source (Apache License 2.0).
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ok, I'm going to visit it and hope it can suit for my situation... and
>>> most important: it's not to hard to configure :-D
>>>
>>>>
>>>> > Sorry for my poor english, I hope somebody here understand what I'm
>>>> > trying to say :D
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Not a problem at all: you're very clear. And your English is better than
>>>> my <anything else>!
>>>>
>>>
>>> Well, it is entertaining :-D
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Good luck.
>>>> Eric.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot, Eric!
>>>
>>>
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