nolan;296013 Wrote: > I've done something similar in the past to back up the Music directory > on my Linux based server (which I use to run SqueezeCenter) to the > external USB drive connected to my Windows desktop. > > 1. Share the folder from your Windows machine. > 2. Mount this to your Linux box > > mount.cifs //192.168.0.10/Slimserver /homerdrive/Slimserver -o > user=nolan > > 3. Perform the rsync. The --delete flag also replicates deletions from > the source. > > rsync -ar /home2/Slimserver/* /homerdrive/Slimserver --modify-window=10 > --delete --progress > > 192.168.0.10 is my Windows machine and /homerdrive/Slimserver is the > mount point for the Windows share I have created on my Linux machine. > > I'm doing something sightly different now as I bought a 1TB WD Netbook > (as sold by PC World for £150) which after a few simple hacks turns > into a tiny Linux server so my Windows box isn't involved any more but > this backup method worked fine when I was doing it.
Dude - you rule :) Thanks, man. And yep - I've done exactly same thing as you: I bought a WD MyBook World Edition (MBWE) 1TB drive for £150... I've already done the same as you and SSH'd into it and added Optware and then rsync (and a couple of other bits). Even after a firmware upgrade, the transfer speed is hellishly slow :( I'm hoping rsync might be a bit more efficient in backing up my music... Cheers again for your advice - I'll get onto that now. EDIT: I see that you've also decided to ditch compression... Me too :) It's one of the first things I read about when trying to reduce CPU usage on the MBWE, given that the transfer speed is already so poor. It's such a shame that the hardware can't actually cope with gigabit Ethernet speeds - but I guess at £150 I can't really complain... -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.5.4 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7.1 +AlienBBC 1.06 +Slimscrobbler 0.37.5 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 3 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 55) Library of approx 8800 tracks (MP3 and FLAC) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46883
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