[BackupPC-users] Achiving localhost using tar

Hi All, I have been using BackupPC for a while now, starting with it running on Fedora in 2007 before switching to Ubuntu LTS. I am using the sudoers method of allow backuppc to access my systems. I'm using rsync transfers from all remote machines and use tar to backup /home on localhost of the

Re: [BackupPC-users] trying to improve the speed at which backuppc rsync back up processes a large binary file in incremental backups

On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 14:51 +1100, Adam Goryachev wrote: > Definitely, I find that transferring (for example) uncompressed > mysqldump files will transfer less bytes than transferring the > compressed files. (Obviously because the compressed file will transfer > 100%, while the uncompressed will o