I'm trying
to backup my files from my Linux box
to my Windows
Server 2008 as a push, and when I delete them from my Linux box, they remain on my Windows
Server. I've found lots of sources that are similar, but most results were from Windows
to Linux. I managed
to find slightly more similar cases like Using rsync and cygwin
to Sync Files from a Linux
Server to a Windows Notebook PC, and rsync from Windows PC
to remote Linux
server, with the most similar being a backup from Linux
to Windows
Server, but through a pull from the Windows
Server.
Initially, I used Unison because I thought having the 2-way capability would come in handy, and I would just have
to set some configurations
to make it 1-way. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the right configuration, and only managed
to synchronize using the command unison "profile" -ui text -auto -silent. When I deleted the files on my Linux box, the files in the
Server got deleted too, which of course, isn't what I want. When I tried
to find any options for Unison, I only discovered the -force option, which didn't help, since what I wanted was an incremental update
to the
Server.
I found out I could achieve this from using rsync and the -a option (archive), which would keep adding files even if I deleted them from my Linux box.
I installed Cygwin on my Windows
Server, configured an SSH daemon, but I can't seem
to get it working. I've also already configured Windows Firewall
to open port 22 (both inbound and outbound). I used the following command from my Linux box:
rsync -avrzn /folder/to/be/backed/up/
[email protected]:/cygdrive/c/place/to/store/backed/up/files
(a - archive, v - verbose, r - recurse into subdirectories, z - compress, n - dryrun)
but it just won't work. Can anyone help me out? I don't mind using either Unison or rsync, as long as it achieves what I want.
