Hi reader, on Tuesday, 2006-07-25 at 00:03:45, you wrote: > Three or more windows XP boxes that are devoted primarily to editing > video or graphics in one way or another. The stuff needing backup can > be in really big files but also lots of normal sized still images etc. > > I'm planning to use rsnapshot/rsync to back up the NTFS windows disks > to a gentoo box with internal discs with the needed capacity.
If the copying is only for backup, you could use amanda and Samba for
the job. I've only done it with a single XP crate but it worked
flawlessly and has the advantage of allowing backups to devices smaller
than the backupee's disks, or even smaller than individual files, in
case they should be \LARGE.
cheers!
Matthias
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