Backuppc Rsync Windows

[neemers]

Hi all!
I'm new to this forum and I love this site. It has helped me soooo much lately.

Sorry if this question has been asked, I have done a search but did not find what I wanted.

My question is..... How do you setup Backuppc to Rsync windows machines? I have found some sites mentioning Cygwin with ssh and rsync. I tried to do it that way but failed miserably. I ran into so many issues with the damn SSH crap. Is there a way to Rsync a windows machine without using SSH. I'm backing up locally and really do not need SSH for any security reasons.

I've been following this walkthrough...
http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_backuppc
And this....
http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~kscully/CygwinSSHD_W2K3.html

Any info would help me out so much.

[sjau]

When rsync server is running on the windows machine just do a normal rsync request...

[Ben]

If you just need a backup of that windows machine to a central site,
maybe take a look at bacula (http://www.bacula.org), it also has a storage client for windows...
http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Supported_Operating_Systems.html

[neemers]

Yeah it's just getting damn Backuppc to be configured correctly to connect to the server with Rsync.

Does anyone know if you can make Backuppc Rsync without using SSH? I went through and put # in front of the SSH commands. Will that be enough?

If anyone knows of a walk through that explains backing up windows machine with Rsync instead of Samba with Backuppc would be great.

Thank you all for you help!

[neemers]

I got it working!! WOOOOO!

I installed cwRsync on the win server and got it setup correctly, then fiddled with Backuppc and finally got the settings correct in it.