On Thu, 6 May 2010 08:51:12 -0700, Kris Lou <klou AT themusiclink DOT net>
wrote:
> Hey people,
> I'm wondering what the preferred method is to backing up Windows
clients,
> especially in terms of performance. Currently, I'm simply mounting
> windows drives via SMB/autofs, and running rsync over that. I like it
> because I don't have to install any additional software on the clients.
> But I know/read that a lot of people run Cygwin and rsync directly.
> What are the advantages of that?
> Thanks,
I find it works better than smbfs as it pretty much bypasses permissions
(if I run the rsyncd as a local service) and then I just have to deal with
(much simpler) rsyncd access control (allowed hosts, secrets, etc.).
Your mileage may vary but moving my 1 client from smb to rsyncd solved all
my 'access denied' problems (after a good deal of attempting to fix the smb
access).
-Josh
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