[kwlug-disc] Transferring large backup files over the network

[Paul Nijjar]

On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 05:56:51PM -0400, Remi Gauvin wrote:
> On 2019-05-23 4:40 p.m., Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
> > 
> > Hrm. That brings to mind the (non-FLOSS) Windows Subsystem for Linux.
> > The problem with many of these "compile Linux tools on Windows" is
> > that they are often limited to 32-bit (although I am not sure whether
> > MobaXterm is). That actually has caused problems for me in my backups
> > when I have tried to use various Rsync for Windows tools in the past.
> > 
> > But if I install Linux in Windows using WSL, then the 64 bit versions
> > of these tools might be available, and then maybe NTFS is not going to
> > be the bottleneck any more. 
> > 
> 
> I just use Cygwin for this purpose.  Neither NTFS nor 32-bitness are a
> problem, and I have no idea why you think they would be.  I do not,
> however, preserve the permissions / Ownership of the Windows host to the
> backup.

The reason I think (thought) they would be was because I tried a
number of versions of rsync on windows in 2014. Several versions of
rsync had 4GB file size limitations: 

https://superuser.com/questions/728190/rsync-on-windows-not-transferring-large-files

cygwin did not, but it was really slow when I tried it. Things may
have improved now. Disabling compression might help a lot. 

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