mr> Quite right--I didn't mean to imply that NFS to a remote location (or mr> even across a firewall from a DMZ) is a good idea; I would use rsync mr> over ssh for that, or rsyncd as you suggest. The NFS idea was more mr> for a dedicated "snapshot server", where the main file server would be mr> mirrored directly across a dedicated subnet.
mp> Even for a local network, you will probably find rsyncd substantially mp> faster than NFS. (rsync can more intelligently pipeline and overlap mp> operations on its own socket than the OS can for NFS.) Certainly it's mp> nice to also support NFS for direct access though. Martin, Thanks for pointing this out to me--I've added a note on the web page near the NFS discussion. My machines are so slow that the network isn't a bottleneck anyway, but this should be relavent to others, especially where users don't need the transparency of a mounted system directory. http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots.html Best regards, Mike -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
