Thanks a lot for this information Dan. It's great !
Have a nice day,
Regards,
Romain
dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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09/10/2007 20:50
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"Rob Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Your opinion about Samba / Rsync (+ SSH) / Rsyncd
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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