rsync - Jul 2004 - Help: rsync queries

Dear rsync Developers,
I am new user to rsync,
I have few queries please help me.
 1. I want to know whether rsync server and client are available for
	* Novell servers
	* Windows 2003
	* Windows 2000 server
	* Windows NT
	* Windows XP
	* Xservers
	* Mac OS X
	* Mac OS 9

 2. I also want to know if my rsync server is on Mac OS X
	and the clients are Windows (XP/2000/2003) , Novelle Server , Mac OS X, Mac
OS 9, Linux.
	Does it works with all the clients. I mean to say is there any problem
backup the data using rsync from all different 	OS clients to Mac OS X.

 3. I also want to know if my rsync server is on Windows (XP/2000/2003)
	and the clients are Windows (XP/2000/2003) , Novelle Server , Mac OS X, Mac
OS 9, Linux.
	Does it works with all the clients. I mean to say is there any problem
backup the data using rsync from all different 	OS clients to Windows.

 4. I also want to know if my rsync server is on Novelle Server
	and the clients are Windows (XP/2000/2003) , Novelle Server , Mac OS X, Mac
OS 9, Linux.
	Does it works with all the clients. I mean to say is there any problem
backup the data using rsync from all different 	OS clients to Novelle
server.

 5. I want to know If rsync Server is receiving the data of around 1 GB
every day what is harware configuration recommended 	for the better
performance.

 6. How rsync works with multiple client connections in terms of performance
?

 7. For backing data across different clients on different platform (as I
mentioned earlier) do we need data to be backup	should be availble on
shares(NFS/CIFS) ? or what rsync supports ?

 8. What are the recovery mechanism provided by rsync ?

Thanks and Regards
Swapnil Joshi

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Swapnil wrote:
>  1. I want to know whether rsync server and client are available for
> 	* Novell servers
> 	* Windows 2003
> 	* Windows 2000 server
> 	* Windows NT
> 	* Windows XP
> 	* Xservers
> 	* Mac OS X
> 	* Mac OS 9
I am unaware about Novell, but I do know that you can run rsync under 
Windows by using Cygwin. As for Mac OS X, it's Unix based, so grab the 
source and compile. I am unsure about Mac OS 9.

>  5. I want to know If rsync Server is receiving the data of around 1 GB 
> every day what is harware configuration recommended for the better 
> performance.
We maintain just under 1TB per server with 20 or 30 backup targets and 
don't see the load average (admittedly a poor measure of performance) 
exceed 4.0.

>  7. For backing data across different clients on different platform (as 
> I mentioned earlier) do we need data to be backup should be availble on 
> shares(NFS/CIFS) ? or what rsync supports ?
There are some weird hang bugs during certain scenarios when backing up 
a Windows client to a Linux server. We found (and so have others) that 
using a push, rather than a pull seems to clear up the problem.


-Chuck

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