I just started my first WinXP to Linux backup and I'll throw out a
few comments here about the "BackupFromWindowsToLinux" wiki page. [1]
(Sorry, but I'm just not motivated enough to actually update the page.)
1. I found that generating an SSH key pair with "puttygen.exe"
generates keys in a Putty-specific format which therefore can not be
imported into Linux. Despite munging them in various obvious ways
(trying to make them look like keys from ssh-keygen) I couldn't
get them to work. There is a web page "Using Putty on Windows to
[sic] login Linux securely via OpenSSH" which has very succinct
directions for generating keys with OpenSSH and then converting them
into Putty's format using puttygen.exe. I humbly suggest the
BackupFromWindowsToLinux wiki page plagiarized that information:
a. On the Linux system, generate id_rsa and id_rsa.pub
SSH keys by doing "ssh-keygen -t rsa". Do not use
use a passphrase.
b. Securely transfer (e.g. SFTP fetch ) the resulting
~/.ssh/id_rsa (private) key onto the WinXP machine.
c. On the WinXP machine, execute "puttygen.exe"
d. Do "File -> Load private key" to load the id_rsa key into
puttygen.exe.
e. Save the resulting (Putty specific) public and private keys
as "publickey.ppk" and "privatekey.ppk"
2. It took me a few minutes to figure out how to a full backup of
C:\ going. The magic is to escape the "\" with "//". For example...
rdiff-backup.exe -v5 --no-hard-links --print-statistics
--remote-schema "plink.exe -i privatekey.ppk
%s rdiff-backup --server" c://\
[EMAIL PROTECTED]::/destinationdirectory
That too ought to be mentioned, me thinks, for obvious reasons.
cheers,
steve
--
director of computing
department of physics
university of wisconsin
[1] http://wiki.rdiff-backup.org/wiki/index.php/BackupFromWindowsToLinux
[2] http://linux-sxs.org/networking/openssh.putty.html
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