On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 05:34:48PM -0800, Tarun Karra wrote: > it's ok even if I have to host a rsync server on windows machine and set > it up to backup the open files preliminarily,, The most important thing for > me is *****backing up open files*****.
Then you should definitely look into doing that. The only reason you should ever mount a remote Windows server is if you cannot run rsync server on it (for whatever reason). > what effect does SAMBA have on RSYNC if do mount and rsync the windows > folder. Samba has no affect. SMB does :-) The SMB file sharing protocol defintely passes any locking issues onto the SMB client (Linux in your case) - so if it's locked under Windows, then it's locked under Linux... -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
