i absolutely prefer rsync and rsyncd. I use deltacopy on my windows
machines and rsyncd on backuppc and it works great. deltacopy is an rsyncd
wrapper for windows. http://www.softsea.com/review/DeltaCopy.html
on linux, i also use rsyncd and run a local rsync server. i run ubuntu on
all my linux desktops so its pretty easy to get it all setup in a hurry and
uniform. i do have a sco unix and a digital unix machine that i use
rsync/ssh for as they dont run a very reliable rsyncd. the sco one crashes
constanty(known bug) and digital unix didnt come with it and i get errors
during compiling of the rsyncd server.
i have used smb, and it works fine except that when windows locks a file,
smb wont tranfer it. you also have to worry about special permissions that
dont get transfered so you have to be more carefull.
i did use tar on a machine also but found that i could use rsyncd pointed to
localhost:path and get faster, better results!
On 10/9/07, Rob Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> > On 10/08 09:14 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> Is it possible to have your opinion or the pros and cons about
> XferMethod
> >> (between Linux server and Windows clients) ?
> >
> > In all but some unusual cases, use rsync. Most files on a computer don't
> > change; so transferring only the changed ones is the sensible thing to
> do.
> > Most of the Windows workstations I back up; take <10 minutes; and most
> of
> > the time is spent just figuring out what files have changed. If those
> > backups were done with tar, they would take .5-1.5hr in most cases, to
> > transfer all the files.
> >
> I agree. Although I don't have any experience using tar or smb with
> BackupPC, rsync just makes sense. I back up over the internet, which
> would be basically impossible for me to do using tar or smb, since they
> require periodic full transfers. Rsync's "full backups" still only
> transfer the changes in files.
>
> I use rync over ssh to backup Linux boxes, and rsyncd to backup Windows
> boxes. I've very happy with it.
>
> -Rob
>
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