Anand Gupta wrote:

Thanks for the link. I see BackupPC_tarCreate and BackupPC_zipCreate for tar and zip. Is there an rsync version ? So instead of creating a tar or zip, it can rsync the data over to another location ?

The reason i asked is because the amount of data i am going to backup is 1T+ and thus creating a tar of the same would be unnecessary time consuming job, whereas infact i would only want to rsync the data across to another location.

Rsync is only going to help if most of the files already exist at the target.  There is probably some sort of server message to start a restore, but I haven't tried it.  If you are set up to use rsync to back up and your rsyncd permits write access a restore will also work over rsync.

My main motive is incase i don't have access to a browser, i can still restore files using console. My backup server runs behind a firewall, i only have console access to the server.

I assume you mean you have ssh access to the server.  If so, you just need to learn the tricks of ssh tunneling.  If you specify -L8000:127.0.0.1:80 on your ssh command line or the equivalent with putty's ssh/tunnels, you can point your browser on the same machine at http://localhost:8000/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin
and get a connection.   Or, for something even nicer for remote work, look at the NX client/server from http://www.nomachine.com - or your distribution might include the freenx version of the server.  These give you a full GUI remote desktop with good performance over an ssh connection.