On 9/19/07, Merz, Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running Backuppc successfully for quite some time now, backing up mostly > Windows Clients and Servers using smbclient. > As the Data is growing, its becoming difficult to backup a complete Server > over Night, so I'm looking if I can speed it up. > I'm wondering if rsync on Windows would be faster then smbclient, has > anybody of you experience with it, and has a comparison between rsync and > smbclient? > Large Portions of the data consist of small files, 1-10kb, millions of them.
The biggest issue with rsync is that it can use a lot of memory if you have a lot of files, so you will often need to break up rsync backups with a lot of files into smaller batches. That said, if the files you are backing up don't change much, rsync may be faster even after breaking up the backup into manageable chunks. This sort of thing varies so much depending on the speed of the backup server, client, network, disk setup, etc, that you will likely just have to try it yourself to find out. -Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
