Re: [rdiff-backup-users] VShadow on Windows XP

[Daniel.Li]

How about network performance?

On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 23:42 -0500, Asim Baig wrote: 
> Its fairly easy to do. You could use cygwin but there's no need really. 
> I have tested/verified this solution by writing a bash script that 
> writes to a file in a loop in c:\projects. It writes a timestamp per 
> line to the file. As I am running this script, I execute 
> VSS/rdiff-backup from another command prompt window. VSS/rdiff-backup 
> combo backs up the open file being written to perfectly.
> 
> this bash script writes to a file at a fast rate
> 
> while(true); do  date;echo `date` > open_file.txt; done
> 
> 
> Scenario:
> -----------
> You want to backup your windows c:\projects (or the entire drive if you 
> wish) to a remote linux box 192.168.0.2 (remote destination folder is 
> /var/backups/projects).
> 
> Step0:
> --------
> - Get rdiff-backup.exe, plink.exe, putty-gen.exe (put in your path e.g. 
> c:\windows)
> - Get dosdev.exe from http://www.ltr-data.se/files/dosdev.zip and put in 
> your path (e.g. C:\windows)
> - Enable auto ssh login in to linux box from windows...yada yada
> - Make /var/backups/projects writable by the user you will use to do 
> auto ssh login (asim in my case)
> - Make sure the windows and linux rdiff-backup versions are identical. 
> It wont work if they are not!
> 
> Step1:
> --------
> C:\>type vss-exec.cmd
> call %~dp0\vss-setvar.cmd
> 
> :: Define temporary drive letter x:
> dosdev X: %SHADOW_DEVICE_1%
> 
> :: Run rdiff-backup on the snapshot drive (x:)
> call %~dp0\rdiff-backup.cmd
> 
> :: Delete temporary drive letter
> dosdev -r -d X:
> 
> Step2:
> --------
> C:\>type rdiff-backup.cmd
> c:\windows\rdiff-backup.exe --terminal-verbosity 5 --print-statistics 
> --no-hard-links --remote-schema "plink.exe -batch -i privatekey.ppk %%s 
> /usr/local/bin/rdiff-backup --server" X:/projects  
> address@hidden::/var/backups/projects
> 
> Step3:
> --------
> C:\>vshadow -script=vss-setver.cmd -exec=vss-exec.cmd c:
> 
> 
> Notes:
> 
> You can put Step3 as an hourly scheduled job on your windows box.
> You could log in to the linux box and check the destination folder to 
> confirm valid rdiff backups
> 
> $ cd /var/backups
> $ rdiff-backups -l projects
> 
> or you could simply run the following on your windows machine to check:
> 
> C:\>plink.exe -batch -i privatekey.ppk address@hidden 
> "/usr/local/bin/rdiff-backup -l /var/backups/projects"
> Found 10 increments:
>     increments.2009-05-16T23:21:41-05:00.dir   Sat May 16 23:21:41 2009
>     increments.2009-05-18T16:34:37-05:00.dir   Mon May 18 16:34:37 2009
>     increments.2009-05-20T12:03:40-05:00.dir   Wed May 20 12:03:40 2009
>     increments.2009-05-20T17:03:50-05:00.dir   Wed May 20 17:03:50 2009
>     increments.2009-05-29T08:24:07-05:00.dir   Fri May 29 08:24:07 2009
>     increments.2009-05-29T08:42:41-05:00.dir   Fri May 29 08:42:41 2009
>     increments.2009-05-29T08:45:47-05:00.dir   Fri May 29 08:45:47 2009
>     increments.2009-05-29T08:46:57-05:00.dir   Fri May 29 08:46:57 2009
>     increments.2009-05-29T08:48:04-05:00.dir   Fri May 29 08:48:04 2009
>     increments.2009-05-29T08:49:22-05:00.dir   Fri May 29 08:49:22 2009
> Current mirror: Tue Jun  2 23:00:43 2009
> 
> C:\>
> 
> 
> 
> Asim Baig
> address@hidden
> Cognizo Technologies, Inc.
> 
> 
> Marcel (Felix) Giannelia wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > I would be very interested to read how this works -- backing up user 
> > registries as been a long-standing annoyance with me on Windows systems.
> >
> > ~Felix.
> >
> > On 02/06/09 10:23, address@hidden wrote:
> >> Well, I spent some of yesterday getting shadow volumes to work on XP.
> >>
> >> (They should work on XP, 2003 Server, and all flavors of Vista, IIRC
> >> - the method I'm using should work on Vista home versions since the
> >> volume shadow snapshot [vss] service is available on VH.)
> >>
> >> If anyone wants this information I can document more clearly what
> >> I've done, and package it so you can get at it.
> >>
> >> It appears to work flawlessly with RDiff-Backup on a native windows
> >> binary. (Haven't tried it with cygwin binary yet.) Open PSTs and
> >> other "locked" files are handled nicely!
> >>
> >> [I am using a bash script in cygwin to handle log parsing etc, just
> >> not running the actual rdiff-backup cygwin binary. {yeah, I know, how
> >> corrupt...:) Using bash to run a windows binary...<chuckle>} I'll
> >> probably write it in Perl before I'm done, but I've got a really nice
> >> bash script right now and I like it.]
> >>
> >> This turns rdiff-backup into a very nice tool - IMO, enterprise grade.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Greg
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >>   
> >
> >
> >
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