Jean-Michel Beuken <jean-michel.beuken <at>
uclouvain.be> writes:
>
>
> Hello,
> I want to share my little experiment with Vi$ta...
> Related with backup of Vista client with rsyncd, you must pay attention
> of the "junction points"
> (
http://www.svrops.com/svrops/articles/jpoints.htm
> ) and
> the filesystem organisation of Vista
(
http://mutable.net/blog/archive/2008/03/31/vistas-virtualized-folders.aspx
> ).
> the avoid the problem of loop with the junction point and then, the
> "path too long" in the name of the path,
> we add exclusions (partial list,it's a exemple, it depends of the path)
> in the rsyncd.conf :
> ------------------------------------------
> auth users = backuppc
> secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets
> read _only_ = true
> use chroot = false
> transfer logging = false
> log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log
> log format = %h %o %f %l %b
> hosts allow =
192.168.111.0/255.255.255.240
> hosts deny =
0.0.0.0/0
> strict modes = false
> [USER_2H0.002]
> path = /cygdrive/c/Users/
> auth users = backuppc
> secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets
> exclude from = /cygdrive/c/cygwin/etc/exclude_user.txt
> ------------------------------------------
> and the "exclude_user.txt" file contains :
> ------------------------------------------
> - All Users
> - Default User
> - All Users/Application Data
> - All Users/Desktop
> - All Users/Documents
> - All Users/Favorites
> - All Users/Start Menu
> - All Users/Templates
> - Default/Application Data
> - Default/Cookies
> - Default/Local Settings
> - Default/My Documents
> - Default/NetHood
> - Default/PrintHood
> - Default/Recent
> - Default/SendTo
> - Default/Start Menu
> - Default/Templates
> - Default/AppData/Local/Application Data
> - Default/AppData/Local/History
> - Default/AppData/Local/Temporary Internet Files
> - Default/Documents/My Music
> - Default/Documents/My Pictures
> - Default/Documents/My Videos
> - Public/Documents/My Music
> - Public/Documents/My Pictures
> - Public/Documents/My Videos
> ...
> ------------------------------------------
> (this config works with backuppc 3.1.0 under Linux/CentOS 5.2 and the
> standard distribution of cygwin for the Vista machine)
> regards
> jmb
>
>