=item WinXX
-The preferred setup for WinXX clients is to set $Conf{XferMethod} to "smb".
-(Actually, for v2.0.0, rsyncd is the better method for WinXX if you are
-prepared to run rsync/cygwin on your WinXX client. More information
-about this will be provided via the FAQ.)
+One setup for WinXX clients is to set $Conf{XferMethod} to "smb".
+Actually, rsyncd is the better method for WinXX if you are prepared to
+run rsync/cygwin on your WinXX client.
If you want to use rsyncd for WinXX clients you can find a pre-packaged
zip file on L<http://backuppc.sourceforge.net>. The package is called
cygwin-rsync. It contains rsync.exe, template setup files and the
minimal set of cygwin libraries for everything to run. The README file
contains instructions for running rsync as a service, so it starts
-automatically everytime you boot your machine.
-
-If you build your own rsync, for rsync 2.6.2 it is strongly
-recommended you apply the patch in the cygwin-rsync package on
-L<http://backuppc.sourceforge.net>. This patch adds the --checksum-seed
-option for checksum caching, and also sends all errors to the client,
-which is important so BackupPC can log all file access errors.
-
+automatically everytime you boot your machine. If you use rsync
+to backup WinXX machines, be sure to set $Conf{ClientCharset}
+correctly (eg: 'cp1252') so that the WinXX file name encoding is
+correctly converted to utf8.
Otherwise, to use SMB, you can either create shares for the data you want
to backup or your can use the existing C$ share. To create a new
and then set $Conf{XferMethod} to "tar" (use tar on the network
mounted file system).
-Also, to make sure that file names with 8-bit characters are correctly
-transferred by smbclient you should add this to samba's smb.conf file
-for samba 2.x:
+Also, to make sure that file names with special characters are correctly
+transferred by smbclient you should make sure that the smb.conf file
+has (for samba 3.x):
[global]
- # Accept the windows charset
- client code page = 850
- character set = ISO8859-1
+ unix charset = UTF8
-For samba 3.x this should instead be:
-
- [global]
- unix charset = ISO8859-1
-
-This setting should work for western europe.
-See L<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch08_03.html>
-for more information about settings for other languages.
+UTF8 is the default setting, so if the parameter is missing then it
+is ok. With this setting $Conf{ClientCharset} should be emtpy,
+since smbclient has already converted the file names to utf8.
=item Linux/Unix
=back
+You need to set $Conf{ClientCharset} to the client's charset so that
+file names are correctly converted to utf8. Use "locale charmap"
+on the client to see its charset.
+
For linux/unix machines you should not backup "/proc". This directory
contains a variety of files that look like regular files but they are
special files that don't need to be backed up (eg: /proc/kcore is a
share ("/"), it is easier to restore a single file system if you backup
each file system separately. To do this you should list each file system
mount point in $Conf{TarShareName} or $Conf{RsyncShareName}, and add the
---one-file-system option to $Conf{TarClientCmd} or add --one-file-system
-(note the different punctuation) to $Conf{RsyncArgs}. In this case there
-is no need to exclude /proc explicitly since it looks like a different
-file system.
+--one-file-system option to $Conf{TarClientCmd} or $Conf{RsyncArgs}.
+In this case there is no need to exclude /proc explicitly since it looks
+like a different file system.
Next you should decide whether to run tar over ssh, rsh or nfs. Ssh is
the preferred method. Rsh is not secure and therefore not recommended.
digit is for significant feature releases and improvements (most of
the releases have been in this category), and the last digit is for
bug fixes. You should think of the old 1.00, 1.01, 1.02 and 1.03 as
-1..0, 1.1.0, 1.2.0 and 1.3.0.
+1.0.0, 1.1.0, 1.2.0 and 1.3.0.
Additionally, patches might be made available. A patched version
number is of the form X.Y.ZplN (eg: 2.1.0pl2), where N is the
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