Joey Kelly wrote:
> 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?
>
>
assuming you have a local linux box. Performance might be an issue. now
instead of replicating directly from source disk via rsync (disk->host
OS->rsync) you have to go through disk->host OS->LAN->samba->(disk/mem
cache?)->rsync
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