We are using rsync rather heavily to remotely backup our mission critical data. There are two scenarios that we use:
1) Remote Linux server - We have a samba file server in a remote office near Goldsboro. This server uploads changes via rsync every night to a mirror directory on a local server. 2) Windows/Linux servers - Here in the office we have multiple windows and linux servers that will be rsyncing to an offsite server. I am still setting up the offsite server so for now it is on the internal network. When I have finished this implementation I will switch everything in both offices (main office in Raleigh and sattelite office in Goldsboro) to rsync to the offsite server (in a third location). Sorry for using so many words to answer your question with "we do!" You are supposed to be able to connect to Windows shares using samba but I was never able to get it to work properly. I had to set up a samba server and join it to our domain as a member server. After that I was able to mount all of our important windows shares on one box that I designated as the windows rsync server. It works great. On 12/1/05, James Brigman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is anyone on this list using rsync to transport their data for disaster > recovery? I've seen some effective UNIX/Linux backups/archives done with > rsync, but I'm wondering things like: > > - how well can it be integrated with CIFS/Windows systems? (have I gotta > roll a SAMBA server to translate so that rsync "sees" the windows data?) > - is it relatively fast over slow links? > - how well does it work with "incremental changing" data? Can you > emulate "snapshots", for example? > - anyone have to "reverse" the direction of the rsync data flow to > recover the data, and if so, how easy was it? > > Experienced replies welcome.... > > JKB > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
