On 03/07/2019 20:25, druck wrote:
> On 03/07/2019 11:11, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> On 03/07/2019 10:36, David Taylor wrote:
>>> On 03/07/2019 09:25, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>> Quite a few devices on my network run at gigabit speeds, as does the
>>> RPi-4B.
>>
>> yes, but do they in fact NEED to?
>>
>> My router and my desktop both have gigabit capabiliy but really, what
>> IS the point when internet is only 7Mbps?
>
> The internet isn't everything! Do you never transfer files between
> machines within your network?

Almost never. I make sure they are created on and stay on the server.
Thats the whole point of having it

  Never copy files from a NAS?

Nope. Why? See above. I dont have a 'NAS' I have a server which does
almost everything except run the user level GUI.

ALL the data is on the server. If I need to shove it on  a USB disk for
travelling, that plugs into the server. No network needed.


  Never do
> backups to another machine?

Nope. The machine backs up to itself.

You see my client machines have little more than an operating system, on
them. There is NOTHING TO BACK UP.

All the moving data is on the server and that backs itself up every night

I have code on machines out there on the internet, and that gets backed
up daily, but thanks to the magic or rsync,. , there isn't a lot to
back up.

10 minutes at 4 a.m.

>
> ---druck
>
>


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