Backup Large FileServer

[Mikel King]

Alexandre,

	I would suggest investing in a detachable storage media. My personal  
favorite is this one from Maxtor Solutions...

		http://www.maxtorsolutions.com/en/catalog/MSS_II_Dual/index.html

	You have the option of direct attach via USB or NetAttach via  
10/100/1000BT, the latter would be good because you can serve the  
files from the device while you are transitioning the server. In any  
event it would make your transition fairly headache free.

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On Sep 28, 2007, at 9:52 AM, Alexandre Biancalana wrote:

> Hi list,
>
>   I've to backup a large window$ 2003 FileServer (~800GB) from my new
> FreeBSD BackupServer (before I can change this fileserver to FreeBSD).
>
>   I'm trying cygwin+rsync on FileServer side and rsync+hardlinks on
> BackupServer side.
>
>   Using rsync the two great advantages are:
>      1. Only copy the changes
>      2. on the BackupServer side I use hardlinks from the older  
> backups,
> with this only space consumed is from file that where changed.
>
>   on the bad side:
>      1. Problems with long pathnames
>      2. Problems with unicode filenames
>      3. Very slow copy ~ 2MB/s (I've doubt if this can be improved  
> using any
> other copy method)
>
>
>   I want hear some ideas from the list about the options available to
> accomplish this job.
>
>
>  Best Regards,
> Alexandre Biancalana
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