Backup Large FileServer

[Vince]

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)
> 
Last time I had to do this I ended up using the ntbackup util that comes
with windows and getting it to save to a file on a samba share. This at
least meant that it dealt with things like NTFS ACLs/permissions and
other such windows oddities. Cygwin, while great in that you can at
least have a decent command line on windows, is very slow. I'd hope that
you could get better, depending on the connection between the servers.


Vince

> 
>   I want hear some ideas from the list about the options available to
> accomplish this job.
> 
> 
>  Best Regards,
> Alexandre Biancalana
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