Re: [Nolug] OT: Windows Data replication Software

On Monday 09 July 2007 18:30, -ray wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Joey Kelly wrote:
> > Ok, call me cheap and set in my ways, but I'm going to be doing exactly
> > that next week. I will install cygwin on the windows PC, and make sshd
> > run as a service. Once I have that in place, I'm going to pull updates to
> > a linux server using rsync.
>
> We tried this a few years back on a server with user dir's. It had 10's
> of thousands of folders. Rsync for windows would just die a horrible
> death. We ended up using robocopy, which works well
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocopy). Maybe the kinks in rsync for
> windows have been worked out by now.

Ok, what about using smbmount and doing everything locally on the linux box?

-- 
Joey Kelly
< Minister of the Gospel | Linux Consultant >
http://joeykelly.net
How many spyware pop-ups did you get on your Windows computer today?

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