Re: [Sheflug] how good is rsync linux

[David Holden <dh [at] xxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 22 Nov 2004 18:29, Chris J wrote:
> And Lo! The Great Prophet fred dodd uttered these words of wisdom:
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > At work we have been looking for a method of remote backup, over WAN
> > link, came up with rsync. however the system uses embeded winxp, after
> > some search with google came up with rsyn2nas and cwrsync, client and


 We use rsync for backups from all our machines to a 1 Terabyte nas (soon to 
be a 4T nas) all machines running linux and have had no problems.

Its done over secure shell with something like this

rsync -e ssh -v --delete -ogxrlptz --numeric-ids remote:/dir /localdir/
 
 Dave.



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