{"id":821,"date":"2012-11-25T14:14:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T03:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/?p=821"},"modified":"2012-11-25T14:14:26","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T03:14:26","slug":"rsync-backups-windows-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/2012\/11\/rsync-backups-windows-servers\/","title":{"rendered":"Rsync Backups Windows Servers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Backups are problematic. It is a love \/ hate thing for me. I love having them when I need them but I hate the prep work that goes into getting them done. Of course, that is offset by the hate for the work I have to do when there isn’t one…..\u00a0 … in any case backups are necessary.<\/p>\n

Ok. So setting up yet another server for Rsync backups. This time Windows to a Linux based server. Of course I’ve never documented the process in the past so this time I will spend the extra minutes and make a complete note of what I am doing so I have a consistent process for the next time. I also decided to look at what options are available to provide minimum fuss.<\/p>\n

I looked\u00a0at the various options of cwRsync (which I have used before), Grsync, Cygwin with Rsync as a self-build, a few tools that appear to only support their specific hosted solution like rsync.net.\u00a0 After doing some reading and some basic testing I scrapped all of them and was about to give up when I tried QtdSync<\/a> and finally found something that worked as intended, but…\u00a0 I cannot get it to schedule the backups.<\/p>\n

For the record:<\/p>\n

cwRsync: skip this. The Windows GUI version is paid only without a trial to see what it is like. The free GPL version is command line and the instructions are vague. I know I have used this in the past but the developer seems to have changed focus.<\/p>\n

Grsync: Appears to be a useful GUI but it is unclear as to how to set it to connect to a remote Rsync server and as a result I uninstalled within a few minutes.<\/p>\n

QtdSync<\/a>. SourceForge, GPL Free Software. Simple installation. On the test server it worked fine. I then noted all the steps as I installed to a production server. But I cannot get it to run as a service or schedule to work without being logged into the system. I think it looks like a great utility for desktop to server \/ NAS type devices for home or small business but it just does not cut it for this. I think it will be up for it at some stage, given a bit of new breath in the development.<\/p>\n

DeltaCopy<\/a>: Is held apparently in high regard and I spent several hours on this and gave up.\u00a0 It connected and everything appeared to be ok, except I kept getting an error that it was wanting a directory to exist on the remote backup server before it would transfer files. If I manually added the directory it worked fine. I tried many things but could not figure it out.<\/p>\n

That was a few days ago and I have come back to it today and it worked first time. The chair to keyboard interface playing up again!<\/p>\n

I’ll document how I’ve used it as another post. Suffice to say I like DeltaCopy <\/a>for Windows server Rsync backups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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