--On Tuesday, October 30, 2007 7:56 AM -0600 dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:

> just a hint there though, look into using rsync instead of tar if you can.
> rsync will transfer far less data during your incrementals.

I'm using smb (easy to set up initially) and was considering deploying 
rsync to my Windows 2003 servers. How does the smbclient's incremental tar 
actually work? Is it using some incremental feature of the SMB protocol I'd 
been previously unaware of, or is it just enumerating the remote directory 
tree and collecting files with timestamps newer than a reference timestamp?

Will rsync also look only for "newer" files or will it also detect the 
arrival of older files (eg. copied in from a workstation that touched them 
before the last full backup)?



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