Thanks again... :)
Gene Heskett kirjoitti: > On Tuesday 08 October 2002 11:29, Einar Matveinen wrote: > >thanks, i am compressing everything in the server because i'm > > backing up some windows nt clients mounted by samba (smbmount) in > > my tape server. If i use compress in clients instead the server, > > the compress of the nt clients will be done by the machine where > > i have mounted the nt client????. > > The ideal situation is that the NT machines do their own > compressing, and then ship the server the compressed result. > > However, when you brought the NT machine into the picture, then that > means a windows client. There is one, and someone can probably > point you to where it can be found, but I have no experience with > it at all, nor how uptodate it is in regard to interfaceing with > todays amanda server. > > Here is another thought. Andrew T., (think samba) and his rsync > utility is I think, compatible and buildable on/with the M$ stuff. > This is a whole new idea in copying data in that you can mirror the > NT machine's contents on a local partition using rsync, and then > backup that local partition. A rerun of rsync each night brings > the local copy up to date by moving only that which has changed, > even if only one bite in the middle of a 20 meg file is changed, > the only thing moved is the address in the fileof that byte and the > new value of that byte. Its extremely efficient once the initial > local copy is made. The mirror will of course take up the same > drive space on the local drive. > > >At this moment i've enough space, i'm usinf 40 Gb hp surestore > > dats, and my amount of data isn't very large. But in the future, > > maybe i need compress in clients...... > > It does have its advantages for larger, many client systems. -- Einar Matveinen Vito� �r enn e�a hvat var der mere I ville vide Vito� �r enn e�a hvat vil I mere f�r jeg forsvinder under solen Rekister�itynyt Linux k�ytt�j� nro 221083 Katso http://barrapunto.com/index.pl?section=mbp-einarmatveinen
