Data Pull Vs Push

2012-01-16 Thread Satish Shukla
Hi, I am trying to gain understanding about which of the two methodologies for rsync operation is better . I don’t have statistical information if there is any performance difference for the same set of data. I also want to build some kind of error handling/control to notify users for failures

Re: Data Pull Vs Push

2012-01-16 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012, Satish Shukla wrote: b) pulling the data from source to destination ( i.e. running rsync from destination machine) The main reason to pull is with hard linking of the saved files, e.g. rsnapshot - only possible with a pull operation. Security is also a little

Re: Data Pull Vs Push

2012-01-16 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Actually, rsync is completely capable of doing hard links (--link-dest) in push or pull mode. It is rsnapshot that artificially imposes that limitation to rsync. On 01/16/12 09:55, L. V. Lammert wrote: On Mon, 16 Jan 2012, Satish Shukla wrote:

Re: Data Pull Vs Push

2012-01-16 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2012-01-16 3:03 PM, Kevin Korb k...@sanitarium.net wrote: On 01/16/12 09:55, L. V. Lammert wrote: On Mon, 16 Jan 2012, Satish Shukla wrote: b) pulling the data from source to destination ( i.e. running rsync from destination machine) The main reason to pull is with hard linking

Re: Data Pull Vs Push

2012-01-16 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - From http://rsnapshot.org/faq.html: Q: Can I set the snapshot_root to a remote SSH path? I want to push my backups to a remote server, rather than pull them from a remote server. A: Rsnapshot does not support a remote snapshot root via

Re: Data Pull Vs Push

2012-01-16 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2012-01-16 4:06 PM, Kevin Korb k...@sanitarium.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - From http://rsnapshot.org/faq.html: Q: Can I set the snapshot_root to a remote SSH path? The OP didn't specify over SSH (... I'm doing this to an NFS mount) - that came into the

Re: Data Pull Vs Push

2012-01-16 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As far as rsync is concerned an NFS mount is neither push or pull. It is simply a local copy with one path probably being a lot slower than the other. Doing a local copy also means that you are stuck with - --whole-file. On 01/16/12 16:20, Charles