The downside of this for larger installation tho is that it requires manual intervention to establish the shared ssh keys (for root!) to allow remote tar'ing of file, no?
(so does the rsyncd config, but in that case all you have to do is place the "rsyncd.[conf|secrets]" files on the client. (with a different rsyncd.secrets password for each client of course; otherwise any client could rsync/read the contents of any other client). hjm On Thursday 13 July 2006 16:51, misterpistolpete wrote: > Jacob is right, > > > This doesn't mean you have to give up all hope in > > backuppc. I backup an > > OS X client just fine, but I use tar instead of > > rsync. Since it's on my > > local network, the extra bandwidth isn't too much of > > a problem. > > I have even verified that the standard tar on OS X > works just fine, so don't bother with xtar or hfstar > if you are on OS X 10.4 or higher. > > Here are the relevant lines from my config.pl for an > OS X client. Works just fine. > > $Conf{TarShareName} = ['/Applications', > '/private/etc', '/Users']; > > $Conf{XferMethod} = 'tar'; > > $Conf{TarClientCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -n -l root > $host' > . ' $tarPath -c -v -f - -C > $shareName+' > . ' --totals'; > > $Conf{TarFullArgs} = '$fileList+'; > > $Conf{TarClientRestoreCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l root > $host' > . ' $tarPath -x -p --numeric-owner > --same-owner' > . ' -v -f - -C $shareName+'; > > $Conf{TarClientPath} = '/usr/bin/tar'; > > > > Peter > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- >------ Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web > services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated > technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere > Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=1 >21642 _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ -- Harry Mangalam - Research [EMAIL PROTECTED], E2148, Engineering Gateway, UC Irvine 92697 949 824 0084(o), 949 285 4487(c) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/