[OT] - Backing Up Windows XP to Linux

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On 10/4/06, Gabriel Gunderson <gabe at gundy.org> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 18:01 -0600, Bart Whiteley wrote:
> > Man page indicates that rsync uses file size and mod-time by default.
> > Force checksums instead with -c.
> 
> Interesting.  So, the idea of mounting a SMB share over the VPN and
> rsyncing might work well after all?

That probably depends on your definition of "well". :-)

Even if rsync doesn't checksum the individual files, it still has to scan 
directory trees and read file metatdata, both of which I would expect to 
be order(s) of magnitude faster when done locally (with the results then 
streamed by rsync to the other end) rather than incurring network 
transactions for all of the directory reads.

Chris