Comments on: Snapshot backups

By: Carpet

Carpet — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:32:44 +0000

Thanks for the HOWTO Ryan! Finally got cwrsync up and pumping. Kudos @acdc superstar for the port settings on Windows Firewall too!

By: hoberion

hoberion — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:08:49 +0000

@Joel Hazel

had the same issue:
in the rsyncd.conf on your windows machine add
uid = 0
gid = 0

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 14 May 2010 02:48:35 +0000

Hmm not sure Joel, I haven't seen that before. it kind of seems like the 'nobody' user might not be setup or not setup properly. I would see if you can run the rsync commands manually. Just try to rsync one of your windows shares to a local directory on your linux box. Then take your errors to an rsync forum, once you get those straightened out rsnapshot would work.

By: Joel Hazel

Joel Hazel — Fri, 14 May 2010 00:22:07 +0000

Hey Ryan – been trying to setup 10.6 SL Server with rsnapshot to backup my windows clients in the office and found your guide. Setup went well enough, but when I try to run rsnapshot it get the following:

[code]
@ERROR: invalid uid nobody
rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-40/rsync/main.c(1398) [receiver=2.6.9]
@ERROR: invalid uid nobody
rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-40/rsync/main.c(1398) [receiver=2.6.9]
@ERROR: invalid uid nobody
rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-40/rsync/main.c(1398) [receiver=2.6.9]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
rsnapshot encountered an error! The program was invoked with these options:
/opt/local/bin/rsnapshot hourly
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
ERROR: /usr/bin/rsync returned 5 while processing 10.112.0.122::backup
[/code]

Not sure what I'm doing wrong… any ideas?

By: Amjad

Amjad — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:19:51 +0000

Aaron,To start Rsync service, Right Click My Computer – Manage. Then Look for Services and Applications, and right there you will find cwRsync service. Just right click that and click start.

Hope this helps

By: Ryan Stille

Ryan Stille — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:45:46 +0000

Aaron, try looking in "Administrative Tools" in the control panel.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:55:43 +0000

Thanks for the great writeup, but I can't figure out where to go on the windows box for this instruction

>>Start the cwRsync service – go to the services applet in your control panel, and start the cwRsync service. Set it to Automatic so it will startup upon boot.

I can't find any services applet in control panel. Perhaps I'm not looking in the right place…

Thanks for your help!

By: jens

jens — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:40:46 +0000

Hi.

i followed the instructions and everything worked fine apart from the entry in the BACKUP POINTS / SCRIPTS section. I used the IP address followed by "::" but a rsnapshot configtest says that the source directory doesn't exist. Is there a problem with the IP address? (but the check of the module worked fine!).
Would be anyone so nice and help me?

By: FlavioB

FlavioB — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:02:03 +0000

Hy folks!
I'm trying to backup a Windows client, but as it tries to copy the folder "Eredità" I get the error:

rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "/mnt/remote/user01/daily.0/dire/DIVERSI/Eredit\#340" failed: No such file or directory (2)
*** Skipping any contents from this failed directory ***

Any clues about what to do?

Thanks to all!

By: Gabor

Gabor — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:01:52 +0000

Mike, I think you don’t need the UTF-8 replacement unless you have some special characters (non ASCII) in your file names. And yes, only the module path, the top level, must not have spaces, everything below is fine.