On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 13:10 +0200, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
> Kenneth L. Owen wrote:
> 
> > For a number of years I have run a small home network of windows  
> > machines.  I recently decided to move my computing to Linux.  I now  
> > have two machines running Fedora 8.  The first machine assumed the  
> > role of my windows server using samba.  The second machine is to be  
> > my system archiving unit and I am initially trying to get BackupPC  
> > to maintain an archive of the windows shares on the first Linux box.
> >
> > I ultimately want to run ‘rsync’ as my transfer method, but was  
> > advised to use ‘smb’ when starting out since it would be simpler to  
> > set up.  I am still quite a novice at Linux but this undertaking is  
> > quickly educating me.
> 
> If you're using Linux I actually advise *against* using smb as your  
> transfer method. Use rsync over SSH or rsyncd.
> 
>  From the docs [0]:
> 
>       "The preferred setup for linux/unix clients is to set  
> $Conf{XferMethod} to
>       ``rsync'', ``rsyncd'' or ``tar''.
> 
>       You can use either rsync, smb, or tar for linux/unix machines. Smb
>       requires that the Samba server (smbd) be run to provide the shares.
>       Since the smb protocol can't represent special files like symbolic  
> links
>       and fifos, tar and rsync are the better transport methods for linux/ 
> unix
>       machines. (In fact, by default samba makes symbolic links look like the
>       file or directory that they point to, so you could get an infinite  
> loop if a
>       symbolic link points to the current or parent directory. If you really
>       need to use Samba shares for linux/unix backups you should turn off
>       the ``follow symlinks'' samba config setting. See the smb.conf manual
>       page.)"
> 
> Nils Breunese.
> 
> [0] http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#step_5__client_setup
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------

As you have been pointed to rsync in a windows context, please remember
that rsync over ssh on a Windows client is likely to freeze mysteriously
(search this list as well as the rsync and cygwin forums on the issue),
perhaps not everytime or on every pc but it is a dubious proposition. On
Windoze, rsyncd is the way to go.

Royden Yates




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