[plug] rsync and nfs

[Mike Holland]

On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Bernard Blackham wrote:

> > Dont do this at home kids! Any kind of backup over NFS (or SMB) is going 
> > to be much slower than than ftp/http/rcp/rsync speeds. And possibly less 
> 
> Really? Is that because of the overhead of NFS? There doesn't seem

Yes, maybe 50% from memory.

> to be a simple solution using ftp/http that will preserve
> permissions, users, special files, etc. When I was using rsync over

I think gnu tar might preserve attributes better than NFS. A bit of 
scripting could 'find' files that need updating, tar it up, rsh, and 
untar.  If speed is still an issue for you.

> rsh/ssh, the server didn't have enough memory to cope and spewed

Oh, I thought you said ssh was the problem.


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