Quick question(s) I am trying to improve the speed for an rsync backup. At the moment, we have workstations running windows 98 and I have a Linux 2.2.19 server who accesses the client disks using samba to take the backup. rsync is running in local mode, e.g. accesses directories only. Each client uses ssh to start a server script in their home directories, which in turn mounts the client drive to perform the actual backup.
The backup is done to a rather large local drive on the server, such that the user can have up to two weeks of full and incremental backup using a RO samba mounted directory. This works like charm, except that each Monday, the system will take a full backup of the client data ( which is Identities and "My Documents" ), but the data rate is rather low ( 600Kbyte+ ) on a full duplex 100Mbits network ( no other traffic ). On other days, I use rsync -avW, ( which is marginally better than -av ), together with a --compare-dest to the Monday backup, as to limit the number of files selected for backup. Of course, ftp is fast, real fast. So is xcopy from the client to a samba mounted server ( when smb debugging is disabled ). Any hints?
