Comments on: Rsnapshot Server on Windows

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By: Yoav Aner

Yoav Aner — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:15:19 +0000

Thanks ‘pseudo-anonymous coward’! I made a note on top of the post.

By: Pseudo-Anonymous Coward

Pseudo-Anonymous Coward — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:30:13 +0000

Rsnapshot is actually packaged in cygwin now (Hurray!).

I would caution anyone against using anything older than the 1.7 release because of the path length restriction. The older version of cygwin doesn’t fail nicely when that limit is reached and it will kill your backups. All someone has to do to break your backups is make a folder tree that’s too deep.

By: Christoph

Christoph — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:43:37 +0000

There’s an inherent limit to the length of path and filenames in the current cygwin implementation to 260 bytes (for compatibility with older versions of windws). I believe that Corinna Vinschen is working on this issue for the 1.7.0 release:

http://www.nabble.com/File-name-too-long-problem-td14109419.html

By: a-caveman

a-caveman — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:53:07 +0000

I tried this this afternoon and it worked fine, except for rsnapshot complaining about file names, but that seems to be a windows thing.

One thing, for those not necessarily familiar with .bat files, you need to edit:
/Cygwin.bat
using your favorite text editor and tack the mentioned line at the bottom:
bash –login -i /path/to/shell/script

Also, for your bash script that the .bat file references, I had to have a proper shell script for it to work:
#!/bin/bash
/usr/local/bin/rsnapshot hourly
exit

But otherwise, your instructions worked quite well.

By: yoav

yoav — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:03:50 +0000

Thanks. Please note things aren’t always perfect though. I did keep encountering problems with certain files. I think it was to do with folder nesting levels. At some points, and with particularly long filenames it didn’t seem to work as smoothly as expected. YMMV. Would like to hear other people’s experience / suggestions

By: a-caveman

a-caveman — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:37:06 +0000

Finally! Someone put up instructions on how to do this!

Thank you!

rsnapshot works great for backing up to a linux box and using almost no resources, but all the software for pulling backups to a windows box hogs every last bit of bandwidth. I’ll be trying to implement this in the morning! Hopefully I’ll be replacing our bandwidth and resource hogging piece of junk backup programs with rsnapshot in the very near future…

Thanks again!