Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients

[David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>]

On 08/08/2016 11:25 AM, Daniel Bareiro wrote:
> He also mentions a [Cygwin rsync] problem to doing backup over open files. Have you
> experienced that problem?

I'm not sure.  It's been many moons since I tried to do automated
backups of Windows machines using rsync.


> An alternative that I thought as a
> last resort was to mount the remote filesystem on the backup server
> using Samba and then to use rsync on the mount point, although I'm not
> sure how efficient it can be.

Try it and let us know how well it works.


David