Re: [gentoo-user] Re: best way to backup (incremental over wireless?)

2004-02-06 Thread HvR




rsync was designed for slow high latency connections, if you want both way sync then have a look at unison it uses rsync but consolidates changes on either side.

On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 08:13, Fuzzy wrote:

What about incremental backups for you wireless 'clients'?  (Yes, the first 

time would be slow).  rsync (or whatever other tool) can just copy (and 

compress in transit) new bytes.   rsync or 

http://sourceforge.net/projects/backuppc/  or others can even have windoze 

clients.



"On Saturday 24 January 2004 03:56 pm, Thomas Smith wrote:

>> Also my network is wireless so backing up over it is not an option 

> This question may go a bit off-topic, but why is backing up over a wireless

> network not an option?

Way too slow. Imagine passing 10gb of data through a 11mbps link (which in my 

setup peaks at around 3mbps). That would take around 9 hours for a complete 

backup to finish. "








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[gentoo-user] Re: best way to backup (incremental over wireless?)

2004-02-06 Thread Fuzzy
What about incremental backups for you wireless 'clients'?  (Yes, the first 

time would be slow).  rsync (or whatever other tool) can just copy (and 

compress in transit) new bytes.   rsync or 

http://sourceforge.net/projects/backuppc/  or others can even have windoze 

clients.



"On Saturday 24 January 2004 03:56 pm, Thomas Smith wrote:

>> Also my network is wireless so backing up over it is not an option 

> This question may go a bit off-topic, but why is backing up over a wireless

> network not an option?

Way too slow. Imagine passing 10gb of data through a 11mbps link (which in my 

setup peaks at around 3mbps). That would take around 9 hours for a complete 

backup to finish. "








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