Re: Setup for Lin rsnap serving 4 winxp boxes

On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 11:54:15PM -0500, reader@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I've run a few backups from linux where the Source was a windows xp
> box.  I don't recall the issues involved.  I think mainly I hit some
> problem once where everthing was re-downloaded due to some dating snafu
> between linux and windows.

If you have this problem again you could try adding --modify-window=2
or similar to rsync_long_args and see if that helps.

> I'm planning to try using rsnapshot with backup source on winxp boxes
> and backup destination on linux disc.  Or maybe flowing over onto usb
> storage. 
> 
> A few things come to mind like if using Reiserfs or ext3 for backup
> destination has problems.  Remembering that the winxp machines will
> need to browse the backups and versions often to retrieve past work or
> whatever.

I tried NTFS and FAT32 as backup filesystems on Linux, and had trouble.

I have had no trouble with ext3 filesystems, so I use them.  I have
a cron job to unmount/fsck/mount the filesystems once a month as a
precaution, so the filesystems don't get to 6 months without being
checked and cause a delay if the machine is rebooted.

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