If you've already got SSH and rsync installed, you'll always get better
results with rsync than with tar.

Regards,
Tyler

On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 17:57 -0500, Frank J. Gómez wrote:
> Tar just seemed simpler.
> 
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
> <chrome AT real-time DOT com> wrote:
>         On 11/11 02:43 , Frank J. Gómez wrote:
>         > Paranoid person that I am, I followed the instructions here
>         (
>         > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/localhost.html) to run
>         tar in a way that
>         > would not allow the backuppc user to become root.
>         
>         
>         Is there a reason you're using tar rather than rsync? I run
>         rsync-over-ssh
>         without root access (using sudo in the host key on the remote
>         side). I do
>         realize there are cases where tar is faster tho.
>         
>         --
>         Carl Soderstrom
>         Systems Administrator
>         Real-Time Enterprises
>         www.real-time.com
>         
>         
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