Christian Völker wrote:
> Waking up this thread :)
> 
> Ok, we discovered (and meanwhile I saw it on my systems) when doing 
> backuo with rsync the first full backup will take several days until 
> finished.
> 
> Once this is done, every following backup consumes much less bandwith, 
> so it succeeds within 24hours.
> 
> But what happens to a Windows machine backed up through this line with 
> smb? As there is no rsync involved may I assume every full backup needs 
> this amount of time?
> And does the smb transfer option start at the last failed backup again 
> (just like rsync does)?

No, smb has no way to tell what part of a incomplete backup is good so 
it will have to start over every time and probably never succeed.  And 
subsequent full runs also need to transfer the complete content.  If you 
don't have enough bandwidth, the best approach for windows would be to 
install cygwin rsync in daemon mode and use the rsyncd method in backuppc.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com



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