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)?
> 
smb will do a complete transfer on every full backup.  I think you
should use rsync or rsyncd on Windows (through Cygwin) if you plan on
backing up Windows machines remotely.

-Rob
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