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2006 Dec 29
1
How to improve speed of a single file transfer over an unstable link?
Long time fan and user of rsync, with a question. First some background...
What I'm trying to do is copy a 21GB backup file from my parent's house to
my home to help them with their new computer. But the link is sporadic,
thus a continous copy will not succeed. The session dies after 25mins - 2
hours.
Thus, I've scripted the following script 'get_me.sh'
#!/bin/sh
mv .file.bkf.* ./file.bkf
rsync --timeout 90 user@remote:/dir/file.bkf ./file.bkf
./getme.sh
So, the script moves the temp file created by rsync onto the file itself,
then calls rsync to continue sy...
1999 May 31
2
Backing up Linux box to Win box's tape drive
I am using a Samba server on a RedHat 5.2 box
this box has no tape drive
I would like to back up my network clients to a tape drive on one of the win
boxes;
Is the following feasible;
mount the windows shares using smbmount
tar up the dirs/files
transfer the tar files onto the win machine
Back up using the win machines backup programme
If not any other suggestions?
Please cc me in reply
Regards,