RE: Copying files from one server to another.

["Booth, Simon" <simonbooth () kpmg co im>]

If you want 2 way replication take a look at Unison (another Unix product
that will run under windows), or, if you want a proper Windows based product
I've used LiveVault in the past with success.

Regards

Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Sztachanski [mailto:michael.sztachanski () flightcentre com au] 
Sent: 24 February 2005 03:10
To: Eric Boughner
Cc: 'Sebastien Deleersnyder'; webappsec () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Copying files from one server to another.

"Eric Boughner" <eric () evenlink com>,Internet writes:
> Has anyone copied filed from one server to another for running a backup 
> server.  I have 2 windows 2000 servers that are networked together. I 
> would like to make the one a running backup of the other server. Has 
> anyone done this before?
>
> Eric

You can run rsync for windows. Just setup a scheduled task time for it to
run. It will can the files and see what's changed and only copy the changed
files.

Here is a sample of a script that would reside on your Backup Server:

Files Name: rsync_<system_name>.cmd

@echo off
setlocal
set rsyncpath=L:\apps\cwrsync
set rsyncserver=<name_of_bk_server>
set exclude=L:\scripts\rsync\exclude.txt

rem ** prevent rsync file permission problems ** set CYGWIN=nontsec

rem ** Backup of <system> **
date /t
echo Beginning mirror for <system>
set srcdir=<directory(s)_you_want_backedup>
time /t
echo Mirroring %srcdir%/web
call %rsyncpath%\rsync.exe -av --delete --exclude-from=%exclude%
rsync://%rsyncserver%/%srcdir%/web L:/data/%srcdir%/ time /t echo Fixing
permissions on %srcdir% call xcacls L:\data\%srcdir%\ /T /C /G everyone:F /Y
> nul echo Finished mirror for <system>
-------------------------

The about is Scheduled as a task and a rsync server service will run on the
server to be backuped.

If you have any more question feel free to ask.


regards

Michael

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