Re: [Nolug] OT: Windows Data replication Software

On Monday 09 July 2007 19:15, Scott Harney wrote:
> 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

Oh, I know it can be done, I'm just wondering if doing it this way would
affect Ray's issue.

-- 
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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