Any of you out there that use your opensol and zfs as backup nas for windows machines?
I wonder what is a sound plan... it appears with a few experiments that it may be easier to get error free backups by running the backup itself from windows. Perhaps less problems with NTFS style permissions colliding with unix style.? I've tried both rsync and rdiff-backup in both directions (Using cygwin when action is commenced from windows side. Oh, and in my experiments... rdiff-backup appears to have some huge time overhead compared to rsync alone. I've also experimented with a windows client called Retrospect that appears to work well on the connections and such but has trouble on the windows side... where logs show lots of sharing violations. (even though my version has the `openfile backup' function enabled. -- but this is not apparently related to any problems on the zfs end) Anyone here that can offer their experiences toward the end of the least trouble ridden method when dealing with Windows OS. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
