Barbed wire at 300 Baud? ... Slow is a relative term. It will work over 'anything', but slower takes longer. If you do it over an encrypted link over a ISDN or dialup line, backing up anything of significant size will talke a long time.
My link is only about 150kbps, and doing online backups is not an option for more than a few critical and control files. I on occasion use drbackup.net ... But it does work. I have used a vpn over it, and response is 'slow' for full remote desktop sessions to be kind. And at my house we have 3 to 5 computers using it concurrently on occasion. My wife and I are the 'standard load'. I download software, she e-mails spread sheets and pictures. This little sprint wireless connection gets a workout. Whats slow? 2400 baud was great when I came from a 110baud tty. Now, my kids think 1.5Mbit T1 is slow after having 100MBit and 1GBit to their dorm rooms. As Einstein conjectured, ... It is all relative. Andrew Farnsworth wrote: > So what is considered a "slow" connection? > > Andy > > Don Delp wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:44 PM, t35t0r <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>> When I recently asked about backups for my home network[0], I ended up >>>> going with BackupPC. It's great for me, but might not work for you if >>>> you have to transfer over a slow link. The biggest benefits have been >>>> >>>> >>> Isn't rsync supposed to be made for transferring files over a slow >>> link? We setup BackupPC to use rsync with rsync running in daemon mode >>> via xinetd on all of the client systems we need to backup. >>> >>> >>> >> I don't have any experience with rsync over a slow connection. My >> "might not" was based on Howard's report of issues on a slow >> connection. >> >> You make me want to set up a test case now. :P Bye-bye productivity >> - I need to set up a vpn or something. >> >> Google suggests that rsync is the way to go over slow connections. My >> hope is that the client doesn't need to closely examine files on the >> server to know what needs to be updated. >> >> > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
