[CentOS] Two Samba Servers and Rsync

Tom Diehl tdiehl at rogueind.com
Wed Aug 10 15:31:54 UTC 2011


On Tue, 9 Aug 2011, John R Pierce wrote:

> On 08/09/11 12:50 PM, Railic Njegos wrote:
>> I plan to use rsync to sync data from second to first server. It is OK ?
>> Any suggestion ?
> 
> 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.

There is also rdiff-backup if you need history. Of course it is not a perfect
solution either. Any solution is going to have trade offs.

Regards,

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