Hey all,

I use rsync to keep a backup of some stuff on my Slack-laptop. I use samba to mount a windows folder where the backup is stored. I'm connected to the windows box over a LAN.
The transfer rate is typically 80-100 kB/s. However, when at the same time I upload an internet page, the transfer rate goes up to 300-400 kB/s.

Question is, can I do something to automatically have this high transfer rate?

Cheers, Leon.

What kind of network do you have setup? Hardware used, etc? I've never seen great speeds over samba or even Windows networking, its just slow. Going from Linux machine to Linux machine is always great speeds though. I've never paid attention to it but always just blamed windows..

I connect with my laptop to the LAN (university network) through a D-Link ethernet card in my pcmcia slot. To mount the windows box I login to the windows 2000 network. What else can I tell you...

The purpose of all this is that I want rsync to be run as a daily cron job, which has to be done when I'm at work and should be as fast as possible.

I was just wondering how it could be that the transfer rate would go *up* whenever I'm browsing. I'd expect the opposite. And if it apparently can go up, why not attempt to use the full speed

Cheers, Leon.

What kind of LAN setup is it, like speedwise? What about the Windows server or machine, what is its capabilities set at? Also I'd guess that perhaps the LAN has a lot of traffic on it that could slow down the process, depending on how the university LAN is setup.. etc. It could very well be faster going to the outside world since its a direct link outside of the LAN, etc.

Phew, that's a lot of difficult questons... but here it goes
All I know is that my nic is a D-Link 10/100 Mb/s card. The Windows computer I connect to is running on w2k. No idea about the LAN or server setup. How could I find out about these details? And what do you mean 'going to the outside world'? How would I then connect to the w2k box?

I'm sorry that I can't give you much info, as my knowledge of the whole network business is severly limited, but your help is much appreciated!

Cheers, Leon.

HI,


i am trying to take backup from

/backup/home which is mount drive
to /home

rsync -vrplogDtH /backup/home/a* /home/

even i tried
cp -irva /backup/home/b* /home/


both are very slow they takes 1 hours to complete one GB


Let me know any adivse or alternative solutions for it..