On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk AT bmrb.wisc DOT edu> 
wrote:
> On 09/17/2014 01:58 PM, Gerald Brandt wrote:
>>>
>> still no rsync though.
>
> Oh, right. There should be tar. "GNU tar" matters if you have very long
> filenames that don't fit into standard 512-byte tar header. I expect the
> QNX box doesn't have those so its tar *should* be fine as far as tar
> file itself is concerned.
>
> No idea if backuppc tries to pass any gnu-isms (command line switches)
> to the remove tar, though...

Yes, I think it needs at least --totals.

Ftp may 'just work'.   If not, I'd consider doing a scheduled
tar-over-rsh from some other box that backuppc can access (piped to an
extracting tar, so the backuppc history will pool the unchanged
files).

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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