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Keith Palmer Jr.
Asked: 2011-01-07 12:43:41 +0800 CST

Backing up Windows machines using rsync over SSH

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We have a number of Windows XP / Windows 7 machines which need to be backed up nightly to a Linux file server.

We would like to do it with rsync and rsnapshot as that's what we're familiar with already from the rest of our Linux/FreeBSD machines.

We tried DeltaCopy, but DeltaCopy proved to be troublesome- lots of problems getting it to log in via SSH automatically, and the Windows Scheduled Tasks seem to fail often.

Is there a reliable way/application which can back up Windows machines via rsync to a r

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2 Answers

  1. You might try cygwin. It will work natively with both rsync and ssh, and even has a cron daemon that you could use instead of scheduled tasks.

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  2. You might want to look into Unison File Synchronizer. I've had very good luck with it.

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