It just seemed silly to me to encrypt data that wasn't ever leaving the
machine...
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:04 AM, John Rouillard <
rouilj-backu...@renesys.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 08:11:32AM +0000, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> > If you've already got SSH and rsync installed, you'll always get better
> > results with rsync than with tar.
>
> That's not always true. On large files with lots of changes rsync can
> bog down and you will get backups that take less time with tar (by 50%
> or better is some cases) and you also use less cpu. However you do get
> more bytes transferred over the network.
>
> If the host you are backing up doesn't have a lot of spare cycles, tar
> is also faster becuase of the reduced compute (and sometimes memory)
> load. So it's a trade off and you can't just make a blanket statement.
>
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> -- rouilj
>
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