possibly new rsync trick: rotating snapshots

[Martin Pool]

On  8 Apr 2002, Mike Rubel <mrubel at galcit.caltech.edu> wrote:

> Quite right--I didn't mean to imply that NFS to a remote location (or even
> across a firewall from a DMZ) is a good idea; I would use rsync over ssh
> for that, or rsyncd as you suggest.  The NFS idea was more for a dedicated
> "snapshot server", where the main file server would be mirrored directly
> across a dedicated subnet.

Even for a local network, you will probably find rsyncd substantially
faster than NFS.  (rsync can more intelligently pipeline and overlap
operations on its own socket than the OS can for NFS.)  Certainly it's
nice to also support NFS for direct access though.

-- 
Martin