rsync Samba and Windoz

[Jerry Feldman]

I use rsync to back up my wife's Windows system nightly. Occasionally, I 
find that rsync seems to hang. (I had the same thing with tar). I suspect 
the issue is that my wife's system is suspending. Once solution would be to 
install a backup client on my wife's system (which is what I don't want to 
do) or to schedule rsync at times when my wife is on line. 

Does anyone know of a tool (couild be client/server) that I could use from 
Linux to essentially wake up a sleeping Windows system, and keep it from 
going back to sleep until the rsync is done. (I could write one, but I no 
longer have a Windows C compiler to write the client side). Another 
solution is to turn off energy star altogether. 
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Associate Director
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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