rsync to synchronize to a XP Computer.

[Kipton Moravec]

On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 19:48 -0400, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> Kipton Moravec wrote:
> 
> > So then I decided to just copy the files. For some reason even though I
> > have a 10/100 card in both computers and a 10/100 switch between them, I
> > am only getting about 200kb - 1MB per second transfer and it says it
> > will take 24 hours to transfer the data.
> 
> Yeah, I would expect higher too.  But I don't know the exact cause.
> 
> > I can't figure out the syntax for rsync to copy.
> > 
> > I thought it should be 
> > sudo rsync --delete -azvv -e ssh /home/backup/Work smb://main/c/backupw
> 
> Indeed, that is not valid.  rsync can do "local" copies, and it can copy
> from your computer to a remote host running an rsync server.  "Local"
> means here that the source and destination are both part of mounted
> filesystems on your machine.  If you use smbfs (apt-get install smbfs)
> you can mount smb://main/c/backupw so it appears as a local filesystem.
>  So then it would be something like:
> 
> sudo mkdir /mnt/my_smb_mount
> 
> sudo mount.cifs //main/c/backupw /mnt/my_smb_mount -o username=myusername
> 
Tried this and got error message 

sudo: mount.cifs: command not found

Is something missing in the line?


> sudo rsync --delete -azvv /home/backup/Work /mnt/my_smb_mount
> 
> Note that while this should work, it is not really ideal.  Much better
> is to install actual rsync server on the Windows XP machine.  There are
> a few available, three listed at
> http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/3-ways-to-setup-rsync-server-on-windows/
> .  Probably, your best bet is one of the cygwin ones.



> 
> That way, you'll get the benefit of rsync's bandwidth optimizations.
> With smb as a "local" filesystem, you won't.
> 
> Matt Flaschen
> 

I have cygwin on my XP machine. I will look into this. 

Thanks,
Kip
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