Backing Up Open Files on Windows with Rsync (and BackupPC)

This isn’t specific to BackupPC by any means, but I’ll preface this with a brief explanation:  BackupPC is a “set it and forget it” backup system driven from the server, that allows you to back up the entire network of *nix and Windows PCs.  It doesn’t require any software on the systems it backs up at [...]

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Rsync over SMB

This is a short one — I was using rsync to back up about a terabyte of data, which suffered a number of interruptions. Each time it restarted, I noticed it was copying over the same files over and over again. As it turns out, SMB rounds off the time stamps to the nearest [...]

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