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

2010-10-09 14:03:57
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] What are the advantages/disadvantages of smb vs rsyncd/rsync
From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2010 13:01:34 -0500
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.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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