Re: [BackupPC-users] What are the advantages/disadvantages of smb vs rsyncd/rsync

[Les M. <les...@gm...>]

On 10/9/10 11:42 AM, Xuo wrote:
>
>>>      * Point 4 : it seems to be the most widely used but it needs so executables
>>>        on all clients. This is a big disadvantage.
>> Yes, there are some tradeoffs.  You could also use smb as the xfer method - with
>> the disadvantage of missing new files with old timestamps in incrementals.
> Hi,
>
> How can this happen ? If this file has an old timestamps, then it means
> that it was moved from a directory into the one which is saved. Then it
> is a new file, then it should be saved.

Using rsync, even locally with smb/cifs mounted targets will catch this.  Using 
smb or tar won't because they don't do a comparision against your existing tree 
and have nothing to go on but the timestamps in incrementals.

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   Les Mikesell
    les...@gm...