This is bad. If you mount the drive you may as well use cp or copy or
xcopy. The real strength of rsync is its extremely low level of
network traffic to sync the data. To do this rsync does checksums on
the data so if you run it over a mounted volume it will read all of
the date across the wire. Rsync runs best when there are two
instances of rsync running, one on each machine to be synchronized.
This way only checksums are passed over the wire before any data is
copied.
Brian
Quoting Gabriel Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 15:00 -0600, Ryan Simpkins wrote:
What I want:
Alternative ideas from you. Is there something like rsync that plays
better with XP? I want to do some form of snapshotting so it is very
fast. I want it to be automated. I want the file/backup server to run
Linux. I want to use FOSS or freeware if possible.
Why not do the following?
1) Put the two computers on the same subnet (virtually) with OpenVPN.
2) Have the Linux server mount the Windows share.
3) Rsync from the mounted share to the back-up dir on the server.
Then, if you wanted to get tricky you could watch the management
interface on the OpenVPN server to see when you have connected. After
applying logic to see if an sync is needed, you could then call a script
that mounts the drive, rsyncs it and un-mounts it. All the magic
happens on your trusty Debian server and Windows only needs OpenVPN
installed.
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Gabriel Gunderson
http://gundy.org
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