On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 8:37 AM, HAL9000
<backuppc-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> wrote:
> So, while the documentation does do a pretty good job at getting people up 
> and running it doesn't say much about what is going on behind the scenes. My 
> specific question regarding this is how after the backuppc server logs into a 
> remote machine using ssh then backup the data to the backuppc server.
>
> How, once logged in to the remote machine, does the remote client machine 
> send the information to be backed up the backuppc server? Does it go back 
> through the same ssh tunnel that was created when logging into the client, or 
> does it make a new tunnel altogether?

The rsync and tar xfer methods send the data through the encrypted ssh
connection used to issue the command.  Rsyncd and smb don't use ssh at
all.

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