On 10/31/07, Toni Van Remortel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yaakov Chaikin wrote: > > The reason I am asking is that if I back up My Document once, which is > > 7GB, it's not such a big deal, but if I make it back it up every > > night, such that every night there is 7GB of data flying across the > > network, that won't be too good. > > > Why isn't it good that your network is used at night by your backup? > Otherwise it is just wasting energy, doing nothing, I suppose. > A network is ment to be used, and in my opinion, the network is for > backups at night and for working people during the day.
I don't mind the network being used. I do mind, however, having a few Windows machines that can potentially have 10-15GB of data each sending such giant globs of data over the network when all that's changed is 15Mb. My understanding was that something like rsync wouldn't send the whole thing over even on a full backup. Am I wrong? It doesn't seem to me that I could call this "using" the network. Especially that some of these are laptops with wireless connection to the network. You think 1 night is enough to transfer 40GB over the wireless network? I doubt it... Even if it is, I might be up late working and get affected by such traffic... However, again, the biggest reason is really the fact that all of this is a waste of the networking resources when all you need is 15Mb transfer total. > > I looked into setting up rsync on Windows, but the problem is that I > > already have cygwin installed (I use it for other purposes) and the > > instructions don't explain how to setup rsync as a Windows service if > > you already have cygwin installed. > > > > So, in addition to my question above, does anyone know how to install > > rsync as a Windows service if you already have cygwin installed? I > > have rsync library installed as part of the cygwin installation at > > this point. Not sure what to do next. > > > Install cwrsync of deltacopy, they both use their own private cygwin > libraries without interrupting an existing cygwin installation. Where do I download these from? Thanks! Yaakov. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
