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

[Rob P. <ro...@po...>]

On 10/9/2010 10:39 AM, Xuo wrote:
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> Le 06/10/2010 15:04, Michael Stowe a écrit :
>>>   Hi,
>>>
>>> I would like to backup some laptop computers (for my personal needs).
>>> For the moment, I automount the shared directories of the Windows 7 PC
>>> on my Linux backuppc server. This works fine but the problem is that
>>> some backups are not performed when the laptop is shut down. The backups
>>> start because the Linux server is running but the mount point is down.
>>> I would like to know what are the advantages/drawbacks for laptop pcs of
>>> the following policies :
>>>
>>>      * automount of shared directories + rsync (what I do now).
>>>      * smb + tar
>>>      * rsyncd
>>>      * Other ?
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> Xuo.
>> * automount of shared directories + rsync (what I do now).
>> Probably the least bandwidth-efficient, since rsync has to read every file
>> over the mount.  Can't handle open files.
Why would you mount the directories then rsync them?  I've been using 
the cygwin RsyncD module on Windows machines, and it's worked splendidly...