Yaakov Chaikin wrote: > Hi, > > If I set up BackupPC to use samba to do backup on a windows client, > will it copy the ENTIRE share every single time? > No, only when there is a full backup scheduled. > The reason I am asking is that if I back up My Document once, which is > 7GB, it's not such a big deal, but if I make it back it up every > night, such that every night there is 7GB of data flying across the > network, that won't be too good. > Why isn't it good that your network is used at night by your backup? Otherwise it is just wasting energy, doing nothing, I suppose. A network is ment to be used, and in my opinion, the network is for backups at night and for working people during the day. > I looked into setting up rsync on Windows, but the problem is that I > already have cygwin installed (I use it for other purposes) and the > instructions don't explain how to setup rsync as a Windows service if > you already have cygwin installed. > > So, in addition to my question above, does anyone know how to install > rsync as a Windows service if you already have cygwin installed? I > have rsync library installed as part of the cygwin installation at > this point. Not sure what to do next. > Install cwrsync of deltacopy, they both use their own private cygwin libraries without interrupting an existing cygwin installation.
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