On 2003.02.19 16:58 Jon Niehof wrote:
What I mean is that partial transfers of modified files, one of the
main advantages of rsync, won't happen--e.g. 2MB file foo has minor
change. When running rsync entirely on the BSD box, checksums are run
across the entire 2MB of the local copy, then acro
Uh, not quite. If you use rsync to only copy modified files and not all
files after the first backup then you DO still get some benefit from
rsync.
True.
I'm
not sure what you mean by pulling all of the files over the network.
What I mean is that partial transfers of modified files, one
of t
The naive might consider sharing out the relevant directories on the
Windows machine, mounting them on the BSD machine, and then rsyncing
"locally." Unfortunately that involves pulling all of the files over
the network and so rsync gains you nothing.
Uh, not quite. If you use rsync to only
I'd like to use rsync as a way to back up Windows devices on a network,
pulling data off of the Windows boxes and putting it onto a Samba share.
Is this even possible? I suspect I either need some sort of rsync
implementation on Windows (ha!) or I need to have Samba know to "reach
into" the box
All,
I'd like to use rsync as a way to back up Windows devices on a network,
pulling data off of the Windows boxes and putting it onto a Samba share. Is
this even possible? I suspect I either need some sort of rsync
implementation on Windows (ha!) or I need to have Samba know to "reach into"
