i second that! rsync is much more efficient that smb
on smb, a 100speed ethernet seems to max out at around 6MB/s which rsync
seems to do about 8MB/s. additionally, rsync seems to be more reliable.
the only thing i use the samba services for is nmblookup to find hostnames.
On 10/19/07, Toni Van Remortel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> zwiskle wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > just found, that the smbclient package on debian-etch seems to be broken
> > - ignoring multiple excludes.
> >
> > This seems to disqulifing smb method ?
> > (I'm doing full-backups ( "*" ) exlcuding some direcotries)
> >
> > Does the rsync method work ?
> > Other methods I can try ? ( giving the backup-user on Win no
> > read-rights to that directory ?
> >
> I don't use smb as it uses too much bandwidth. Instead I install rsync
> (cwRsync) on my Windows machines and define a few modules.
> This goes very well (read rights can be controlled through the rsync
> daemon), fast and saves me a lot of bandwidth.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Toni Van Remortel, MSc
> Linux System Engineer @ Precision Operations NV
> +32 3 452 92 26 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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