[ale] rsync and big file systems

[dcorbin at machturtle.com (David Corbin)]

On Thursday 19 February 2004 20:11, Jonathan Glass wrote:
> David Hamm wrote:
> >Has anyone had experience with rsync and large file systems?  The file
> > system in question is around 80Gigs with thousands of tiff files.  We
> > would like to set up two identical servers and have the secondary server
> > rsync with the primary each night over gigabit Ethernet.  At most only
> > about 100 megs of new files would be changed per day.  Any thoughts or
> > experiences?
> >
> Something else I thought was cool:  Supposedly it is possible to use
> RSYNC on a NT-based machine.  I wonder how well that works.  Anyone ever
> set that up before?
>

On more than one occaision.  Works fine.  Getting it to run as a service is a 
bit of a bear.  Never tried it with ssh thogh.

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David Corbin <dcorbin at machturtle.com>