Linux – use DeltaCopy & Volume Shadow Service to backup to another windows network server

backuplinuxrsyncwindows-server-2003

I'm wanting to replace our problematic backup server with an rsync based solution.
I've been looking at DeltaCopy which looks like it's a native version of rsync for windows.
Has anyone had experience of setting this up to backup their servers before?

Do I need a linux box to get this running? was looking at rsnapshot. I have concerns around the file permissions between the different filesystems.

Thoughts and suggestions welcome.

EDIT: actually deltacopy is not native and uses cygwin.

Best Answer

Rsync isn't going to get your ACLs, but you can use a separate too like icacls or setacl to dump your ACLs out to a text file that you can use when you need to restore.

I am currently using cwrsync to pull a backup of non-critical systems. It works ok. I am pulling the backups to a Linux box using the dirvish which is a perl script to do backups with rsync.

  • None of the rsync solutions use the backup privilege. This means they cannot bypass the filesystem acls, and your rsync service account must have at least read access to everything
  • As i mentioned in the comment, until a rsync tool based on cygwin 1.7 is released you won't have support for files where the entire path is greater then 260 characters.
  • You will have problems with files that have some unicode characters.
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