On 10/30 07:35 , Kenneth Porter wrote: > 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?
yes. it's just tar over SMB as I understand it. so incrementals just look for files newer than the start of the last backup. > 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)? rsync has the advantage that it will catch files with old timestamps (tho maybe not in incremental mode). rsync's big win, is that the 'full' backups still only transfer the files which have changed since the last 'full' backup. the only difference between 'full' and 'incremental' rsync backups is the thoroughness of checking of the files. other than some corner cases; it's definitely the way to go for backups. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
