On 11/10/06, James Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have ~160 servers connected on a high speed internal network which > I use to do backups. Additionally I have ~50 remote servers which I > back up over the external network. It's taking about a week to make > the rounds of all the systems. Would it make more sense to use tar > on the internal network backups in hopes of speeding things up?
tar vs rsync is one of those things that just depends... It primarily depends on the speed of your network and how many files are changing. The best thing to do is to just try it on a few machines and see if they backup faster or slower than using rsync... -Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
