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Hello, I'm planning to use rsync for backup a lot of nodes to one rsync server over wan. I'm aware of the fact that on big directory tree rsync will consume a lot of memory and some time even hang. Do you have any estimation on how many rsync client can work with one server at the same time ? I can control each client bandwidth. What will be the bottleneck on the server resource ? Is

Hello, I am very new to rsync and am wanting to have it back up more than 4 remote linux servers via ftp. I want to write a script that will open up a ftp connection using "ftp://username:password@ftp.server.com" with a server, then mount the drive containing the backups, copy the data that is new, unmount the drive, close the connection and move onto the next server until every server

Hi, I was thinking about changing the #shorewall restart command a little bit. Would it be a good idea to make this command restore the previous running configuration in case of a start-failure? (kind of like the "try-command") 1. Save the currently running iptables configuration to a /tmp file. (with iptables-save for example) 2. Run the new configuration. (the one in /etc/shorewall)