[thelist] Server Backup System

Paul Bennett paul at teltest.com
Mon Feb 17 14:48:02 CST 2003


Beam wrote:

>>What I'd like to do is automatically make a complete backup once a week of
>>all websites, then an incremental backup daily of all files that have
>>changed.  The program would login by itself.  I'd like something that would
>>run on Windows on my backup machine.  Bonus points for my being able to
>>access the backup machine through VPN when I am out of the country.
>>
>>
>>
>rsync would be perfect for this. It runs over ssh. Only problem is, for the
>Windows side you need to compile and install it under Cygwin, apparently.
>http://optics.ph.unimelb.edu.au/help/rsync/rsync_install.html
>Personally I would rather install Linux on some old PC and make it a backup
>server, but hey.
>
I would love to use rsync and ssh on my windows box, so if someone can
interpret the garble of install "instructions" for this, please let me
know...

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