> You still hasn't told us which transfer method you use. But if you > use rsync I > would recommend you to convince the professor to leave the computer > connected > overnight. It should suffice to do this just one time, because once > you have all > the data on the server only diffs are transferred (plus some > checksums) when > using rsync. > > Best regards, > /Martin Leben
Looks like I accidentally included my response in a quote, rsync over an ssh tunnel. It doesn't tax the system badly. I've also noticed that backuppc appears to start a new process for each of the RsyncShareName values. For example, if I have /Users and / usr/local I'll see "Starting backup for /Users" followed by one for / usr/local. If I have /Users/foo/bar, /Users/foo/bah, and /Users/foo/boh listed as Rsync Shares and bar and bah complete, but boh does not. Will bar and bah be done incrementally next time (and much faster), thus eventually covering his entire user tree? I only ask, because I've been attempting to convince him to leave the laptop overnight for a while but he feels he cannot part from it. -james ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
