Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Rdiff-backup over FTP

[Giorgio Moscardi]

Hi,

Patrick Nagel ha scritto:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2009-05-07 14:14, Gregy wrote:
>> Wouldn't it be easier to just follow the guide located on the wiki?
>> There is step-by-step how to configure rdiff-backup on windows as a
>> client to linux server. Or do you want windows to be the server?
> 
> Oh, right, there is a Wiki article:
> http://wiki.rdiff-backup.org/wiki/index.php/BackupFromWindowsToLinux

This other article is rather interesting:
http://wiki.rdiff-backup.org/wiki/index.php/UnattendedRdiff


> As for the sentence
> "As Microsoft Windows does not have a native SSH server built-in, this
> is currently not possible without the purchase of a commercial Windows
> SSH server package"
> in the Wiki - there are free SSH servers for Windows, for example
> FreeSSHD [1]. So I think my proposed approach should work.

We have a setup that is very similar to what Gregy wants, and we are
using the approach of the article mentioned before: we have a central
server that pulls data from office servers through ssh at night. For
Windows office servers we are using the stand-alone rdiff-backup binary
together with CopSSH (www.itefix.no/copssh/), and it seems to work
pretty well.

On a side note: as mentioned in another thread, we are using rsync
(still over ssh) for the initial copy, when the data size is huge.

Regards,
Giorgio