[wplug] Amanda Backup

[Brian Medley]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 07:58:39AM -0500, James LaSalle wrote:

> I want to backup Windows directories on a Linux box. At first it 
> appeared there was an rsync for Windows but this is not the case. Most 

This is not true.  I am running Windows 98 inside of Win4Lin (an excellent
product, btw) and have rsync running over ssh in it.  I believe these
utilities will also work on NT/2000 (and maybe XP), but I have not tested
on these platforms.

First download and install this:

    http://lexa.mckenna.edu/sshwindows/download/releases/3.5/openssh35-20030324.zip

Now download and place rsync.exe into the directory you installed openssh
in:   

    http://www.freesoft.org/software/rsync/rsync.exe

Open up a command prompt and:

    c:> cd c:\progra~1\openssh\bin
    c:> mkdir ..\etc
    c:> mkgroup -l >> ..\etc\group
    c:> mkpasswd -l -u username >> ..\etc\passwd
    c:> notepad ..\etc\passwd
        Change the /home/<user> to .
    c:> ssh-keygen -b 1024 -t rsa
    Now copy .ssh\id_rsa.pub to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 on your linux box
    Now try to login to your computer.  The first time you login you should
        be asked to store the host key, you have todo this.  You will have to
        get the login process to automatically log you in w/o displaying
        anything to the screen.  You can use the first command below to log
        you into your linux box and the second command to verify that no
        output is displayed.  You may have to modify permissions on ~/.ssh
        and ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 on your linux box.
        c:> ssh <user>@<linux computer>
        c:> ssh <user>@<linux computer> /bin/true
    Next run rsyc
        c:> rsync -e ".\ssh" -avr <local path> <user>@<linux box>:<remote path>
    

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