On 11/14 09:00 , Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Frank J. Gómez wrote at about 11:12:18 -0500 on Friday, November 12, 2010: > > It just seemed silly to me to encrypt data that wasn't ever leaving the > > machine...
For backups from the local machine, I just use tar. The CPU requirements are much lower, and local bandwidth is cheaper than CPU (you have to move the data around anyway to do the rsync checksum calculations); so I found that tar is faster. As a side note, I also turn off pool compression for the local backups, and have the BackupPC data tree on its own disk array. This way if the disk the OS (and therefore /etc) resides on dies, and I need to restore the BackupPC configuration, I can do it without the BackupPC tools. (Not trivial, but easily possible). -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View: A highly scalable, end-to-end client virtualization framework. Read more! http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-eql-dev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
