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just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I think you’re asking about the Samba share? If it works, there’s no real downside except the speed and general wonkiness of the SMB protocol.

As I would rank the different options:

Rsync+SSH would be fastest if you’re sending entire directories and not packaging first. A bit slower if sending huge files.
NFS would be fastest if sending prepackaged large files, but overall slower if sending a bunch of smaller files
SMB will be slowest in any scenario, but may be easier for you

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HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
SMB isn’t really all that slow these days.

I have NFS and SMB shares set up (same directory) and copying files to/from them maxes out my gigabit LAN.

SSH on the other hand is slower, because there’s more CPU overhead.

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- just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  All data and benchmarks would disagree with you. If you find something showing that SMB isn’t slower than the others mentioned, I’d love to see it.
  
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  - Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I disagree with the other person, rsync + ssh is faster even in my own benchmarks. But samba is plenty fast enough these days, I can easily have it max out my gigabit network so I don’t need anything faster. So for me (and I would guess the majority of people) speed really isn’t a concern anymore, so I use samba because it’s easy to use and it makes sharing network folders to anything else a breeze.
    
    It’s like phones. Yeah technically the newest iPhone is faster than this years budget Samsung. But when’s the last time your phone was actually a bottleneck? (Unless you’re one of those people who play games, in which case, actually please respond cause I could use some really nice idle city builders for my phone pls)
    
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  - HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Real world usage tells me all I need to know.
    
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batmaniam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
This is really helpful thank you! I think it’s samba share? Whatever Unraid has just baked in and calls “shares”.

Googling rsync that looks like it’ll work, and faster is better!

While I do want true backups of a few drives (as in: if a drive fails, restore the backup to a new drive, physically swap it out, and you’re good to go), the majority of the data I’m just looking to have it “backed up” (as in: all of the files are present in more than one location). The majority of the data is ~18TB of media for my plex server. My unraid is: 1x 2TB, 1x 10TB, 1x20TB and 1x20TB(parity). It sounds like Rsync-ing the 20TB drive with my plex media and the 20TB unraid disk would get me what I need?

Thanks for the pointers, getting a few things to google is incredibly helpful.

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