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Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup with tar

2010-04-29 08:44:36
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup with tar
From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:42:28 -0500
Jakub Jedelsky wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have maybe really stupid question. I need to know how backuppc work
> with XferMethod set as "tar"..
> Was first of all maked a tar file on client-side and after that sent via
> ssh or ... is tar file sending continuously? e.g. I want to backup about
> 50GB from client, but there is only 2GB of all space free. Is this possible?
> 

The data is sent as a stream over the ssh connection to the server which breaks 
out the files and matches them up in the pool.  The client side does not need 
extra space.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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