hello
thanks for your answer
may you explain me the thing with the delta compression?
i want to backup some files incremental over ssh with tar. is that
possible? and is it possible to sudo the tar process on the remote
machine?
thanks, best regards
marco
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 13:06 +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2006/03/22 13:24, Marco Fretz wrote:
> > my problem, this user has no access to some files
> > in /etc, /usr/local/etc, and so on. so what to do?
>
> Give the user read-access to those files...?
>
> > my problem now i had to transfer the whole tar archive (on some systems
> > over 8 GB) to my backupserver every day twice (packup period).
>
> If you're compressing the tar, stop doing that, and give the delta
> compression (rsync-type algorithms) a chance to work.
>
> > is there a way with rdiff-backup to start rdiff-backup on remote machine
> > with root access (by sudo)?
>
> Yes, see rdiff-backup's manual page ('remote operation' section).
