Christian Völker wrote: > Waking up this thread :) > > Ok, we discovered (and meanwhile I saw it on my systems) when doing > backuo with rsync the first full backup will take several days until > finished. > > Once this is done, every following backup consumes much less bandwith, > so it succeeds within 24hours. > > But what happens to a Windows machine backed up through this line with > smb? As there is no rsync involved may I assume every full backup needs > this amount of time? > And does the smb transfer option start at the last failed backup again > (just like rsync does)? > smb will do a complete transfer on every full backup. I think you should use rsync or rsyncd on Windows (through Cygwin) if you plan on backing up Windows machines remotely.
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