On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Adam Field wrote: > Have you tried smb/cifs? You know, the built in windows networking > sharing protocol? It may be a bit slower in certain conditions than > other protocols, but I've never had it corrupt any transfer ever. Then > again, I've never had any problems with FTP on a local network > (filezilla included). What kind of network runs 10 megabytes/second? > Do you mean 100 megabit? Common ethernet is 10/100/1000 megabits per > second. In any case, all three have been superbly reliable for me over > the years, even with ancient 10 base hubs where the collision light > would go solid the whole transfer. I'll give SMB/CIFS a go. Also reminded me of NFS (very solid when I used it). My network is a gigabit network and I limited my machines to 10 megabytes/s (the two windows computers, anyway). > If not rsync is the way to go (or perhaps sftp, but that'll be SLOW > with the encryption overhead usually), maybe search for a windows gui > for rsync? Or use a cygwin environment so you can have a bash shell. > I'm sure you could schedule rsync backups with the windows task > scheduler. I want to avoid cygwin/mingw or rsync. But I guess I'll have to do it if there's no other option. Thanks. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist