I suppose this is more an rsync question than a dirvish question, but hopefully someone can answer it.
I have several computers at my shop that I use on a daily basis. I want to back them all up with Dirvish each night. As discussed previously on this list, I could have a separate SSH port for each machine or an SSH tunnel setup on the border router to forward to each machine. However, all of the data that really needs a nightly offsite back up is on one of three machines - one is my main desktop and the other two are already mounted as samba shares on my main desktop. My idea then is to backup only the main desktop, which would bring with it the samba shares on the other two boxes. The connection between my shop and my house is at most 768k while the local network is 100mb so I don't think flying the data across the local network will add much slowdown. My question is what happens if the samba share is not there one night? If it's mounted on Monday, not mounted on Tuesday, then mounted on Wednesday, will Dirvish treat Wednesday's files as new files and download them again, or hard-link them to Monday's files? I suspect the answer is they'll be treated as new/changed files...unless the unmounted share returns an error, in which case Dirvish would use Monday's directory as its base for comparison, right? Suggestions are welcomed. I may end up just setting up cygwin/dirvish and opening up those SSH ports for the two windows boxen. _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
