Monday, November 3, 2008

BackupPC Install Guide for Windows XP/Vista Clients

I've been working on getting BackupPC set up on my home network, and as part of that process I've kept notes of everything I had to do (twice, now). I rewrote them as the BackupPC Install Guide for Windows XP/Vista Clients available on my UMD CS site.

To backup Windows clients, I used Cygwin, rsyncd, and a pre-established SSH tunnel because of problems with regular rsync over SSH when using Windows and BackupPC.