If you've already got SSH and rsync installed, you'll always get better results with rsync than with tar.
Regards, Tyler On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 17:57 -0500, Frank J. Gómez wrote: > Tar just seemed simpler. > > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom > <chr...@real-time.com> wrote: > On 11/11 02:43 , Frank J. Gómez wrote: > > Paranoid person that I am, I followed the instructions here > ( > > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/localhost.html) to run > tar in a way that > > would not allow the backuppc user to become root. > > > Is there a reason you're using tar rather than rsync? I run > rsync-over-ssh > without root access (using sudo in the host key on the remote > side). I do > realize there are cases where tar is faster tho. > > -- > Carl Soderstrom > Systems Administrator > Real-Time Enterprises > www.real-time.com > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference > Architecture > Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using > Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View: A highly scalable, > end-to-end > client virtualization framework. Read more! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-eql-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture > Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using > Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View: A highly scalable, end-to-end > client virtualization framework. Read more! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-eql-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: > http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ -- "The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and all that we wish of good must be won on this earth or not at all." -- Anne Smedley ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View: A highly scalable, end-to-end client virtualization framework. Read more! http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-eql-dev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
