On Wed, September 15, 2010 16:22, George Adams wrote:
>
> Thanks for the replies, Kenneth and Les. Kenneth, do you find that SMB is
> faster than rsync for backing up Windows boxes?
>
> Les, that' not good news if 2-3 hour incremental backups and 7 hour full
> backups are par for the course. Is the slowdown due to the
> network-transfer time, or is some kind of checksum being run on every
> single one of the 21,000+ files, even during an incremental backup? If
> so, why isn't the "--checksum-seed=32761" option making any difference?
>
> Thanks. It'd be nice if I could setup some blackout times for this
> Windows PC, but unfortunately it gets turned on in the morning, used
> sporadically (but consistently) during the day, then turned off at night.
might you change your routine?
leave the host running and let backuppc shut it down when it is finished
via a $Conf{DumpPostUserCmd} script combined with the cygwin shutdown.exe
program.
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