dnk wrote:

> 
> Well I am thinking of a dedicated OpenVPN connection between my lan  
> and my data center.
> 
> How do people find the backup times over an encrypted channel like that?

If you the same encryption method, iti will at least match ssh. 
Anyway, once you have the initial copy, rsync will just be transferring 
the changes.

> My other thought was to maybe install backuppc on a local server, then  
> just rsync off to a remote server periodically.

The huge number of hardlinks in a backuppc archive limits the size that 
rsync can handle.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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