robocopy rocks.
-- Puryear IT, LLC Identity Management, Directory Services, Systems Integration Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 * http://www.puryear-it.com "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/ebooks/linux-unix-best-practices -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. > > Incidentally we use rsync/ssh on linux boxes with millions of files and > it works great, although can take a long time to generate the file list > haha. I've been wanting to implement rsnapshot but haven't had time. > > ray ___________________ Nolug mailing list nolug@nolug.orgReceived on 07/10/07
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