rsync - Feb 2005 - which is faster and less bandwith

I am currently running on rsync on a linux server that also server
mysql, and webpages and email,

What it be better to run the rsync command on the backup server or the
live server to save bandwith on the live server?

Will it save system resources on the live server if i ran the rsynv
command of the backup server?


Witch one wil it make take less time to run?

On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 03:09:03PM -0600, chris allen
wrote:
> What it be better to run the rsync command on the backup server or the
> live server to save bandwith on the live server?
If I understand you correctly, you're copying files betweeen machine A
and B and you want to know if you should invoke the rsync command on
server A or B?  The answer to that is that there is no difference -- the
end result is the same number of processes on both systems.

The only thing that really makes a difference is going directly to the
source of the files.  For instance, if some of the backed-up files were
NFS mounted, it would be better to back them up off the NFS server than
off an NFS client.

..wayne..