On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell AT digitalkingdom DOT org> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 04:11:15PM +0100, Boniforti Flavio wrote:
>> Hello Pavel.
>>
>> > for huge dirs with millions of files we got almost an order of
>> > magnitude faster runs with the tar mode instead of rsync (which
>> > eventually consumed all the memory anyways :) )
>>
>> How would I be able to use tar over a remote DSL connection?
>
> Well, by hand you'd do:
>
> ssh host 'tar -czvf - /dir' >/backups/foo.tgz
>
> BackupPC's tar method seems to be over ssh by default; just set up a
> passwordless root key and you should be fine.
>
> 20GB over DSL is going to take many days, though, no matter what you
> do.
>
> Note that once the initial backup is run you almost certainly do
> *not* want tar transport, as this implies copying the entire 20GB
> on every full.

Popping into this conversation with a couple of questions....

1. Can you switch methods without consequence? In other words can you
switch back and forth without any side effects?

2. Does the timeout apply if you run the backup command from the cli?
Is it easy to remove or override the timeout from the command line?

Thanks,
Richard

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