On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 09:37:01AM -0600, Richard Shaw wrote:
> 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?
I've not tried, but knowing the internals as I unfortunately do, I'd
be *very* surprised if there were any consequences.
> 2. Does the timeout apply if you run the backup command from the
> cli?
How do you mean "run from the CLI"?. If it goes through the
BackupPC server, the timeout applies.
> Is it easy to remove or override the timeout from the command
> line?
I doubt it. Easy enough to temporarily override it in the host's
config file.
-Robin
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