[BBLISA] Help with backups

[Tom Metro]

Steve Revilak wrote:
> You might try
> 
>   mkdir /mnt/samba_share/`hostname`
>   rsync --backup --archive --verbose -n --one-file-system \
>       /. /mnt/samba_share/`hostname`

If /mnt/samba_share/`hostname` is a network mounted file system, this 
defeats much of the benefit of the rsync protocol in terms of minimizing 
network bandwidth.

When ever there is more than one computer involved, you want to use an 
rsync server to accomplish the communication across the network, not a 
network file system.

  -Tom

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