I'm rsyncing over ssh to unix servers now & am wondering what people who use rsync for their unix boxes do when dealing with win 2000/NT machines? Steve Mallett
Steve-- I (unfortunately) have this setup--rsynching FreeBSD boxes to a Windows 2000 machine. The Win2k box is my Veritas BackupExec server, and I don't have a local tape drive for the BSDs. I was unsuccessful getting either rsync or sshd to work as services under cygwin/cygrunsrv, but thanks to the kind help of Bart Coninckx, at least rsync works nicely as a native Windows service (with some registry entries.) I managed to get a clean installation of Cygwin with both sshd and rsyncd running as services via cygrunsrv on a Win2k laptop, so I'll be trying this next on my server. Cheers, -John Steve Mallett wrote:> I'm rsyncing over ssh to unix servers now & am wondering what people who > use rsync for their unix boxes do when dealing with win 2000/NT machines? > > Steve Mallett >
I mount the windows (98,ME,NT,2000, XP, ECT!) box with samba.... and go BOOM! rsync that baby from localhost:/mnt/win2000 or where ever the smbfs lies... Watch out for pagefile.sys (i think!)... it's won't copy. (let me know about any other's) Now, can you think of a way to sync the win 2000 OS? (the WHOLE flippin' system) so that if it were to go down one could restore the full installation (bootstraps, bootloader, ect!!?) by means of the rsync'ed "backup". please? thank you. ;-) -Chris On Wednesday 11 December 2002 06:44 pm, Steve Mallett wrote:> I'm rsyncing over ssh to unix servers now & am wondering what people who > use rsync for their unix boxes do when dealing with win 2000/NT machines? > > Steve Mallett