Hi folks,
I'm reconfiguring a lab full of Win95 PCs, and I've been
experimenting with rsync as a way of maintaining their integrity.
In the past, we've used a thing called rdist-win95 (which is no
longer supported) to resynchronize the machines with a master
image each time a user logs on. This worked OK, but had its
quirks. Now I'm looking for something new. I've considered
converting to PC-RDIST, but I'm put off by the price.
I've gotten the rsync for win32 that was kindly compiled
by Mike McHenry (http://rsync.samba.org/rsync/nt.html) and I've
been experimenting with it. I have a "hidden" (to explorer)
partition E: with a copy of the contents of drive C:, and I can
successfully use rsync to synchronize the two. But it's slooooooooow.
With rdist-win95, it took a few seconds to check to see if anything
needed updating. With rsync, it takes 5 minutes or more. This
just isn't acceptable for something that runs in a login script.
One difference between rdist-win95 and rsync is that
the former maintains a database of times, sizes and checksums from the
files in the master image. This helps make things faster, but I
don't think it accounts entirely for the speed difference. (The
image, btw, is about 500 MB.) Can anyone offer any suggestions
for speeding up rsync in this situation, or recommend any other way
of (cheaply!) doing fast integrity checks at each login?
Thanks in advance,
Bryan
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