RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN wrote at about 01:47:51 -0600 on Wednesday, May 4, 2011:
 > Thank you for your reply
 > 
 > Adjust the command line to work with FreeBSD not sure how to go about this? 
 > I presume editing the config.pl script any hints? I checked that 
 > /usr/bin/tar exits and wounder why would the FreeBSD package maintainers not 
 > include a working configuration file, or include gnu tar as a dependency if 
 > it is required to work.  Don't get me wrong i love BSD, but why do they make 
 > everything so difficult for us.  I am sure it is just me as backuppc is in 
 > the ports so most must have it working right? 
 > 
 > Does anyone have backuppc working on FreeBSD with tar? maybe i
 should forget tar and move on to rsync or something? 
For many (most?) people, rsync is the easiest, most efficient, and
most problem-free method. I believe that tar has issues with
 incrementals in that it can miss moved files with older dates.

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