dan
Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:50:53 -0700
i absolutely prefer rsync and rsyncd. I use deltacopy on my windows machines and rsyncd on backuppc and it works great. deltacopy is an rsyncd wrapper for windows. http://www.softsea.com/review/DeltaCopy.html
on linux, i also use rsyncd and run a local rsync server. i run ubuntu on all my linux desktops so its pretty easy to get it all setup in a hurry and uniform. i do have a sco unix and a digital unix machine that i use rsync/ssh for as they dont run a very reliable rsyncd. the sco one crashes constanty(known bug) and digital unix didnt come with it and i get errors during compiling of the rsyncd server. i have used smb, and it works fine except that when windows locks a file, smb wont tranfer it. you also have to worry about special permissions that dont get transfered so you have to be more carefull. i did use tar on a machine also but found that i could use rsyncd pointed to localhost:path and get faster, better results! On 10/9/07, Rob Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > On 10/08 09:14 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Is it possible to have your opinion or the pros and cons about > XferMethod > >> (between Linux server and Windows clients) ? > > > > In all but some unusual cases, use rsync. Most files on a computer don't > > change; so transferring only the changed ones is the sensible thing to > do. > > Most of the Windows workstations I back up; take <10 minutes; and most > of > > the time is spent just figuring out what files have changed. If those > > backups were done with tar, they would take .5-1.5hr in most cases, to > > transfer all the files. > > > I agree. Although I don't have any experience using tar or smb with > BackupPC, rsync just makes sense. I back up over the internet, which > would be basically impossible for me to do using tar or smb, since they > require periodic full transfers. Rsync's "full backups" still only > transfer the changes in files. > > I use rync over ssh to backup Linux boxes, and rsyncd to backup Windows > boxes. I've very happy with it. > > -Rob > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ >
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