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I used to run Linux for everything but I’m having to use Windows these days. What would it take to get rsync.net playing nicely with windows? I’m imagining Wind

I used to run Linux for everything but I’m having to use Windows these days. What would it take to get rsync.net playing nicely with windows? I’m imagining Windows subsystem for Linux (ubuntu) with duplicity installed to it? Are there any major hiccups to that sort of setup?

pfortuny 6y ago
rclone should work, afaik.
rsync 6y ago
From the standpoint of random access "browsing" over SSH/SFTP, you could just use filezilla or WinSCP or ... psftp.exe. However, if you want a backup process then you will, indeed, need to find some way to run 'borg' or 'restic' or 'rclone' on Windows. I've never used WSL so I can't comment, unfortunately ...
xupybd 6y ago
Rsync.net is amazing for Linux servers. For windows servers backups are complex and expensive. I tend to offload that to a cloud provider like Azure. Onsite I rotate hard drives. But for desktop users backblaze does everything I need. If anyone has a recommendation for backing up Windows servers I'd love to hear it.
- jabroni_salad 6y ago
  It looks like rsync.net is indeed compatible with Windows, just perhaps not out of the box. Keeping in mind that SSH on windows is somewhat new and I haven't really tried it with a service like this yet. If you can get command line access to rsync.net with openssh and either CMD or Pwsh, then robocopy can forklift your stuff. This is without even getting into the weeds of the fact that WSL exists... I am also seeing that some documentation exists for pointing Veeam at it, which is my preference. I don't run any metal computers that aren't hypervisors and using that to back up my VMs, be they windows or linux, is my preference.
jsmith99 6y ago
WSL is tricky for backups because cron jobs don't always run (although it's possible to run WSL command through windows task scheduler). Rclone, restic, and kopia are useful tools with official windows builds.

pfortuny 6y ago

rclone should work, afaik.

rsync 6y ago

From the standpoint of random access "browsing" over SSH/SFTP, you could just use filezilla or WinSCP or ... psftp.exe. However, if you want a backup process then you will, indeed, need to find some way to run 'borg' or 'restic' or 'rclone' on Windows. I've never used WSL so I can't comment, unfortunately ...

xupybd 6y ago

Rsync.net is amazing for Linux servers. For windows servers backups are complex and expensive. I tend to offload that to a cloud provider like Azure. Onsite I rotate hard drives. But for desktop users backblaze does everything I need. If anyone has a recommendation for backing up Windows servers I'd love to hear it.

jabroni_salad 6y ago
It looks like rsync.net is indeed compatible with Windows, just perhaps not out of the box. Keeping in mind that SSH on windows is somewhat new and I haven't really tried it with a service like this yet. If you can get command line access to rsync.net with openssh and either CMD or Pwsh, then robocopy can forklift your stuff. This is without even getting into the weeds of the fact that WSL exists... I am also seeing that some documentation exists for pointing Veeam at it, which is my preference. I don't run any metal computers that aren't hypervisors and using that to back up my VMs, be they windows or linux, is my preference.

jsmith99 6y ago

WSL is tricky for backups because cron jobs don't always run (although it's possible to run WSL command through windows task scheduler). Rclone, restic, and kopia are useful tools with official windows builds.