Comments on: Snapshot backups

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.

By: mike

mike — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:23:34 +0000

thanks gabor!!! i was having an issue with delta copy, if my top level folders had spaces, they werent working right. so if there were too top level folders starting with “My ” then they wouldnt work cause they ended up beign the same. using the 8.3 names worked great!

weird though, everything below the top level, even with spaces, were fine.

does UTF-8 matter for anything else except for other languages?

By: Gabor

Gabor — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:13:35 +0000

Thanks for the article! Here are some important things to add:

With standard cygwin1.dll filenames with UTF-8 characters, like German “Umlaut”, won’t show up correctly. For that you have to use a modified cygwin1.dll which can be found at http://www.okisoft.co.jp/esc/utf8-cygwin/

The path of your module must not contain spaces or wildcards. As a workaround you have to use the short name (8.3) which you can see in the Windows shell with “dir /x”. In the include/exclude section you may use a ? for a space. For example:

path = /cygdrive/c/dokume~1 # (German version)

exclude = Default?User

The cwRsync service is run by an user with the same name. This user has to have full access to the files waiting for backup. If you want to backup your user directory in “Documents and Settings” you have to give user “cwRsync” full access to it.

And, as acdc superstar said above, the Windows firewall needs an exception for rsync.

By: ryall

ryall — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:25:55 +0000

Fred, you can use linux as either a server or client using rsync and DeltaCopy

http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DisplayFAQ.do?fid=7

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 02:29:11 +0000

Doug, if I understand well, you can use only the client of DeltaCopy on the Windows machine and rsnapshot on the Linux box? Or is DeltaCopy entirely for Windows machines (no Windows/Linux interoperabilty)?