Re: Samba, rsync, home network w/ XP, backups?
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, sean finney wrote:
> a ] share your entire xp drive (ew...), smbmount it onto the woody
> box, and then just rsync -a between two directories
your entire XP drive is shared anyways, you could smbmount it onto the
woody box using the C$ share and the admin login/password.
> (i wouldn't recommend that as an automated solution, leaving your
> entire drive shared is bad...)
indeed, and microsoft insists on doing this, unless you know the registry
keys to remove those shares.
> b ] install cygwin on your xp box, and through cygwin install rsync,
> cron, and ssh. then, rsync the directories when you want, just
> like you would on another linux box (this assumes you know how
> crontabs work if you want to automate it).
one problem I found with rsync under cygwin is it is HORRIBLY slow. I
have a dual celeron 433 master server that takes about 30 to 45 minutes to
build the file list for 5 gig of files(about 150,000 files)
The celeron 333 that grabs that list off the NT server, can in turn share
it out in well under a minute.
Mike
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