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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