Silver Salonen wrote:
> On Thursday 07 January 2010 10:45:27 Uwe Schuerkamp wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 12:52:44PM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>>
>>> My first inclination is to say that if the network connection to the
>>> machine is sufficiently unstable that you can't complete a full backup,
>>> you probably shouldn't be trying to back it up over the network.
>>> However, there are ways to work around the problem.
>>>
>> You could also try rsync'ing (rsync -av user@remotehost:/
>> /backup/remote_host/) to a local filesystem and then backing
>> that copy up locally. Should rsync abort it will skip the files which
>> are already present & up to date on the local copy.
> 
> It's a Windows workstation and I've set up the system where the person can 
> just click a shortcut that activates his job and he gets the notification 
> about the job by e-mail later. So rsync is not an option.

Consider DeltaCopy (http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp),
which is basically rsync for Windows in a Windows-friendly wrapper.
It's free, GPL'd, and will connect to a Unix rsyncd.

Thus, rsync *is* an option.


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