On Wednesday, July 28, 2010, at 11:09:06 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > Is there anything I should watch for before I make this change? > Anything I should do other than just changing the appropriate config > settings for the client?
When I made such a change for several Windows boxes on my LAN, I found it advisable to immediately run a full backup, manually, for each of them, to give the rsyncd setup a new baseline. My experience was that rsyncd returned many files that smb had been getting "permission denied" on. Since these files didn't exist on the last smb full backup, each incremental transferred them all over again. Establishing the new baseline sped matters up considerably. One of them, though, ran for some 13 hours attempting the full backup before I stopped it, and at that point it was less than half done. I removed that share (it was an archival drive) from the configuration before continuing, and the next full backup took only about 20 minutes. It's also helpful to exclude directories such as /WINDOWS and /WINNT from consideration; of course if you're only backing up data that won't enter into it, but I prefer to back up the full drive and exclude the directories that I don't want... -- Jim Kyle mailto:j...@jimkyle.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ 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/
