Robert J. Phillips wrote: > When I first started using BackupPC I was letting the backups happen > with SMB. I have since found and figured out how to make it work the > process to use vshadow and rsyncd. > > > > I think now that I understand the vshadow command that I could use > vshadow and SMB. > > > > What are the advantages/disadvantages between SMB and RSYNCD? > rsync(d) transmit only changed parts of a file (http://www.samba.org/rsync). e.g. a 2.6 GB mailbox.pst and receive one new mail at sunday. rsync will only transmit this one new mail.
And you need a client on windows side. You can use cwRsync or rsync within a cygwin environment. br Matthias -- Don't Panic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
