Without inviting too many anti-CDDL flames; if you have ZFS on Linux working on your samba 4 box, a zfs send and receive should do the job well; preserving all file attributes and only transferring deltas. Plus you get all the usual ZFS benefits (snapshots, copy-on-write, check-summing), assuming you've got the RAM to make it work smoothly.
http://zfsonlinux.org/ Has anyone tried this configuration? Ben On 1 March 2013 23:46, Gregory Sloop <gr...@sloop.net> wrote: > Thanks. I asked this a few weeks back and didn't get much response. > The half-hearted consensus was that rsync wouldn't do the job. > > [It seemed to me it should, as long as you're replicating between two > DC members, and not to a non DC member. (Because, as I figured it, a > non DC member wouldn't have any idea about the users/groups, since > it's not replicating and of the DC data, right?)] > > Glad for any light you can shed - and thanks for letting me know it > should work. I'll tinker with it when I'm to that point. > > -Greg > > > JA> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 09:13:39PM -0800, Gregory Sloop wrote: > >> > >> I'm in the same boat, and I'm only aware of two possibilities. > >> > >> 1) Robocopy - using a Windows client. > >> BUT Robocopy doesn't do file deltas - changed files are copied in > >> their entirety. Which isn't a problem if you don't have large > >> files. But if you've got a 10G file that changes often, then this > >> probably isn't the best alternative. > >> > >> 2) http://www.bvckup.com/support/ [Bvckup] > >> This also appears to be a Windows utility, but does handle file > >> delta's. I have never used this tool and so can't vouch for it in any > >> way. > >> > >> If you find a functional solution, that preferably can be used on the > >> two Linux/Samba boxes to do file-deltas and still maintain the > >> permissions - that would be best. > >> > >> One other option that might work: > >> Rsync the data, and use robocopy to simply duplicate the permissions > >> structure. [I believe this is possible.] > > JA> rsync using -A (preserve ACLs) and -X (preserve extended attributes) > JA> and -o (preserve owner (super-user only)) and -g (preserve group) > JA> should copy thing perfectly. > > -- > Gregory Sloop, Principal: Sloop Network & Computer Consulting > Voice: 503.251.0452 x82 > EMail: gr...@sloop.net > http://www.sloop.net > --- > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba