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Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:52:59 -0300
From: "Alexandre Biancalana" <biancalana@gmail.com>
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Hi list,

  I've to backup a large window$ 2003 FileServer (~800GB) from my new
FreeBSD BackupServer (before I can change this fileserver to FreeBSD).

  I'm trying cygwin+rsync on FileServer side and rsync+hardlinks on
BackupServer side.

  Using rsync the two great advantages are:
     1. Only copy the changes
     2. on the BackupServer side I use hardlinks from the older backups,
with this only space consumed is from file that where changed.

  on the bad side:
     1. Problems with long pathnames
     2. Problems with unicode filenames
     3. Very slow copy ~ 2MB/s (I've doubt if this can be improved using any
other copy method)


  I want hear some ideas from the list about the options available to
accomplish this job.


 Best Regards,
Alexandre Biancalana