On Sun, 22 Aug 2010, Larry Brower wrote:
Max Pyziur wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have successfully been using rsync to backup my Linux desktop and laptop
> for several years.
>
> My current goal is to automatically backup a Windows 7 desktop to a linux
> server using rsync. I've found guidance here:
>
http://www.gaztronics.net/rsync.php
>
> I have installed Cygwin along with the rsync option.
>
> For the Windows 7 machine I've written a short batch file who's critical
> line reads as follows:
> c:\cygwin\bin\rsync -vrtz -e "c:\cygwin\bin\ssh -i
> /home/someuser/.ssh/id_rsa" /cygdrive/b
> someuser@leeloo:/var/backup/arrakis
>
The above does not look right. The path to the key would need to be on
the machine calling rsync, in other words the Windows box. That being
said /home/someuser/.ssh/id_rsa wouldnt be the correct path.
That part of the line works. Until I generated the correct key (ssh-keygen
-t rsa -b 2048), I kept getting error messages that the key couldn't be
found.
This isn't the problem.
The problem is that the backup machine (a Linux box) requests
authentication from the Windows 7 machine when the Windows 7 machine
initiates the rsync script to backup contents to the linux box.
Max Pyziur
pyz(a)brama.com