BackupPC

Windows

• We have made some scripts to make the install go a little quicker and painless
• First we have a .bat file(runs through windows command prompt) to add a user for backuppc to use
• I have included and annotated the code to help understand what the script does, the actual script echos warnings and informs you of what it is doing along the way
• THE .BAT SCRIPT MUST BE RUN IN AN ADMINISTRATIVE COMMAND PROMPT, will fail if command prompt is not "Run as Administrator"

net user /add root     #This adds a user named root
net localgroup administrators root /add     #adds the user root to the Administrator group 
net share sharename=C:\ /grant:root,full     #gives the user the permission to backup all files on the C:\ drive

net user root *     #Takes a password from stdin(prompt) to set for the user root

netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="SSH-Hole Port 22" dir=in action=allow protocol=TCP localport=22 remoteip=128.111.100.0/24,128.111.101.0/24 profile=domain,private,public
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="ICMP Allow incoming V4 echo request" protocol=icmpv4:8,any dir=in action=allow remoteip=128.111.100.0/24,128.111.101.0/24 profile=domain,private,public

(NOTE to self: Small typo in net share sharename, put ":" instead of "=", corrected right after)

• You must have Cygwin installed to run the following commands

*Log in as root 

• Be sure to run the Cygwin Terminal as an Administrator
• Now that the root user is created logout of the current account and log back in as the root user, we will run a bash script to setup ssh

mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd     #Create passwd file
mkgroup -l > /etc/group     #Create group file

ssh-host-config     #Configure ssh on host to accept incoming connections, select all the defaults

net start sshd     #start the sshd service on boot

• Once this script has ran exit the cygwin terminal and open a new one(looking for a way around this still)
• run the following command:

ssh-user-config

• You should now have ssh access to the machine

BackupPC Side

• BackupPC has the defaults in place to backup linux and Mac machines, the rsync locations must be changed on server
• log into your backuppc account at either ashes or twe
• select the host you wish to edit amd click "Edit Config" under the hostname
• Select the Xfer tab
• You will override the following values, delete the entries that appear under these categories:
• Rsyncsharename

/cygdrive/c

• BackupFilesExclude:

/cygdrive/c/pagefile.sys
/cygdrive/c/hiberfil.sys

• RsyncArgsExtra:

--exclude=/cygdrive/c/System\ Volume\ Information/
--exclude=/cygdrive/c/Windows/
--exclude=/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/
--exclude=/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/
--exclude=/cygdrive/c/ProgramData/

• Click save once you have modified these values. If not done so already, start a full backup

README

• You may run the add_Root_ssh.bat before or after installing cygwin, it will create a root user and add appropriate privileges and the prop SSH-HOLE
• NOTE: Script runs through Windows Command Prompt(NOT POWERSHELL) and must be "Run as Administrator", will fail if not run as Administrator
• After installing cygwin, change accounts so that you are the newly created user Root
• Navigate or copy over ssh_setup to a directory you can execute from and run the script, it will ask you questions accept the defaults
• After the script has finished running, exit the cygwin prompt and open another again(reinitializes home directory with proper permissions)
• run command

ssh-user-config

• you can now ssh into the machine as root