Ok, admittedly my last post was very terse but I was busy at the time. The reason I asked was my recent experience backing up my 75 Gb of data over my comcast internet connection. Now that was coming down into the house from my server on the internet so I was using the "fast" portion of the connection, but it was 75Gb of data and took a week or so to download. Now my rsync backups take very little time there are very few changes to that server on a daily basis.
Andy Jack Coats wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
