Kris, In my setup I would have loved to just use the mounts but security issues here put a stop to that so I had to go to rsync. That has worked on my Windows XP and Server 2003 machines but I am having issues with my Server 2008 machines but that may be another firewall and security issue. I am by no means a Guru with this stuff but the rsync on the Windows machines was a breeze to install and configure even for me (a windows challenged person). The only thing I do notice is that when I am on my laptop which is using rsync under XP , I do get some performance issues at the start but my laptop is not on the network all the time and I haven't tuned the backup schedule to only do this say between certain hours.
John J. Boris, Sr. JEN-A-SyS Administrator Archdiocese of Philadelphia "Remember! That light at the end of the tunnel Just might be the headlight of an oncoming train!" >>> Kris Lou <k...@themusiclink.net> 5/6/2010 11:51 AM >>> Hey people, I'm wondering what the preferred method is to backing up Windows clients, especially in terms of performance. Currently, I'm simply mounting windows drives via SMB/autofs, and running rsync over that. I like it because I don't have to install any additional software on the clients. But I know/read that a lot of people run Cygwin and rsync directly. What are the advantages of that? Thanks, Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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/