Help with backups

[Tom Metro]

Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> ...I'm backing up the workstations to the server via mounting a
> shared samba drive to /mnt.

In terms of performance, you'd be far better off using rsync. And don't 
run rsync against a network mounted file system, as that defeats the 
benefits of the rsync protocol. Run an rsync daemon (either statically 
or dynamically started) on the workstations.

If you have the disk space, you can then pair this strategy with one of 
the snapshot schemes that use rsync, resulting in some degree of 
historical archives.

If for some reason you can't run rsync, running tar over an rsh (ssh) 
pipe would still be more efficient than taring a file system that is 
network mounted to the server.

Either of these approaches makes your original question of excluding 
paths irrelevant.

  -Tom

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