Yaakov Chaikin wrote: > 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? > No, you are right. Full backups with SMB transfer the whole bunch, while a full backup with rsync only transfers the changed files. Although the traffic difference between an incremental and a full is still significant, it will use the bandwidth more efficient than SMB.
>> Install cwrsync of deltacopy, they both use their own private cygwin >> libraries without interrupting an existing cygwin installation. >> > > Where do I download these from? cwrsync : http://www.itefix.no/cwrsync/ (download the cwRsync Server) deltacopy: http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp PS: Google is a nice search engine, please try to use it. Thank you. -- Toni Van Remortel Linux System Engineer @ Precision Operations NV +32 3 452 92 26 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
