[Samba] Samba, rsync and a newbie sorting it out...

[Jon Niehof]

> Uh, not quite.  If you use rsync to only copy modified files and not all 
> files after the first backup then you DO still get some benefit from 
> rsync.
True.

> I'm 
> not sure what you mean by pulling all of the files over the network.
What I mean is that partial transfers of modified files, one 
of the main advantages of rsync, won't happen--e.g. 2MB file 
foo has minor change. When running rsync entirely on the BSD 
box, checksums are run across the entire 2MB of the local 
copy, then across the entire 2MB of the copy on the windows 
machine--which involves pulling the entire 2MB over.

> That being said, I do much prefer your solution of using putty and ssh 
> on the windows machine.  It is much cleaner.  ssh.com's clients could 
> also be used for this and they are free for home use last time I 
> looked.  Could be wrong.
I've been insanely happy with PuTTY; full-featured and 
completely unencumbered license-wise.