The easiest way I found is to use cygwin, write a small script that will just rsync the system to the linux server. Make sure to exclude files that windows will lock such as the pagefile.sys. I then wrote a .BAT file that called cygwin and my bash script. Dropped it into the Windows event scheduler and all was fine. rsync in cygwin will default to using SSH so you will want to setup a passphraseless key and a command in the server's authorized_keys files for descent security if you are concerned. I also did the same thing to make backups to a local hard drive by having my bash script startup an rsync daemon and just rsync'ing to localhost on the other drive. -Nick On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 14:26:35 +0200, Hans du Plooy <hansdp@newingtoncs.co.za> wrote:
On Tuesday 02 November 2004 11:11, jalal wrote:
I have a client who is using Windows XP and wants to backup his files (preferably automatically) to my Linux server. [snip] But what would work under Windows? Does Windows have a shell and shell tools? I suspect not. And this is not a computer guru anyway.
Windows does have scripting abilities, but I don't know much about them.
What I did was make a share on the windows box, with user+password auth. Then I wrote a script that mounts that share on the linux box, copy the stuff, and unmounts it again. Works beautifully.
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