Robert J. Phillips wrote:

> When I first started using BackupPC I was letting the backups happen
> with SMB.  I have since found and figured out how to make it work the
> process to use vshadow and rsyncd.
> 
>  
> 
> I think now that I understand the vshadow command that I could use
> vshadow and SMB.
> 
>  
> 
> What are the advantages/disadvantages between SMB and RSYNCD?
> 
rsync(d) transmit only changed parts of a file (http://www.samba.org/rsync).
e.g. a 2.6 GB mailbox.pst and receive one new mail at sunday. rsync will
only transmit this one new mail.

And you need a client on windows side. You can use cwRsync or rsync within a
cygwin environment.

br
Matthias

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