[CentOS] Two Samba Servers and Rsync

[Always Learning]

On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 17:54 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:

> rsync doesn't much tolerate network glitches in my experience.   its 
> also a incremental file backup/copy, and won't be doing a 'snapshot' so 
> if any of these files you're copying are things that are randomly 
> updated like a database, its quite possible for the copy to be useless.
> 
> as a backup strategy, having a single copy that you overwrite when you 
> make a new copy is weak. you have no history, you can't recover the file 
> that the user overwrote 2 days ago and forgot to tell you until today, 
> as you just overwrote your backup with his mistake last night.
> 
> it really depends on what the point of this replica is, what the usage 
> patterns are, what the data archive expectancies are.

What do you suggest for scheduled incremental saves of files changing
irregularly ?



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With best regards,

Paul.
England,
EU.