Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Samba?

[David Kempe]

Cave Crickett wrote:

> Well i'm having lots of trouble getting rdiff-backup to work well in
> Cygwin.  Maybe the docmentation is a little incomplete ....   Anyway, 
> my work around is to use Samba and file shares for the LAN windows
> boxes.  Then backup the mounted shared dir.  I am wondering if anyone
> else is doing this?  Is there a better way.  (I hate Samba).  I just
> would like to hear thoughts on this method.

are you trying to backup win32 (cyg) -> win32 ?
it doesn't work.

if you want something that does work for win32 -> linux thne you can one 
of my packages:
http://sol1.net/~dave/backup/

in particular
http://solutionsfirst.com.au/~dave/backup/rdiff-backup0.13.4w3.exe
is probably what you want.

anyway - I am using samba alot - specifically you don't actually need 
samba, but smbfs or cifs.
cifs, while not in kernel 2.4, is worth the effort of patching your 
kernel, if you are backing up win2k3 servers or xp boxes

dave