Tyler makes some good points. Anyway, tar is working fine for me with the
escaping syntax provided by John Rouillard: exec /bin/tar -c "$@". While
some have argued that tar is better for localhost backups and others have
argued that rsync is better for localhost backups, I'm guessing the
differen
You could do this, and many other things to back up your BackupPC server
differently from your other hosts. The best reason not to is the law of
diminishing returns.
My BackupPC server uses SSH+rsync directly as root, and archives
everything from / down, except for virtual filesystems
and /var/lib
Hi,
I'm a bit late on this conversation, but why not use rsync instead of tar on
the local machine?
I'm not talking about rsync over ssh to localhost but plain old rsync. I can
see some advantages (on speed, diskspace, and cputime).
Here's how i did it:
1 - copy your rsync executable file to you
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 09:00:10AM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> If you are on the same machine, you can do directly without ssh
> by using sudo (and you can protect a little more by setting up sodoers
> properly). Then there is no compression for the local machine...
>
> $Conf{RsyncClientCm
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 lo
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...
If you are on the same machine, you can do directly without ssh
by using sudo (and you can protect a little more by setting up sodoers
It just seemed silly to me to encrypt data that wasn't ever leaving the
machine...
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:04 AM, John Rouillard <
rouilj-backu...@renesys.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 08:11:32AM +, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> > If you've already got SSH and rsync installed, you'll al
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 08:11:32AM +, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> If you've already got SSH and rsync installed, you'll always get better
> results with rsync than with tar.
That's not always true. On large files with lots of changes rsync can
bog down and you will get backups that take less time
If you've already got SSH and rsync installed, you'll always get better
results with rsync than with tar.
Regards,
Tyler
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 17:57 -0500, Frank J. Gómez wrote:
> Tar just seemed simpler.
>
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
> wrote:
> On 11/11 0
Tar just seemed simpler.
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <
chr...@real-time.com> wrote:
> On 11/11 02:43 , Frank J. Gómez wrote:
> > Paranoid person that I am, I followed the instructions here (
> > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/localhost.html) to run tar in a way
>
Hm. You know, I thought I'd tried that. Maybe I left out the quotes. That
did the trick. Thanks!
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 2:58 PM, John Rouillard wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 02:43:12PM -0500, Frank J. Gómez wrote:
> > Paranoid person that I am, I followed the instructions here (
> > http
On 11/11 02:43 , Frank J. Gómez wrote:
> Paranoid person that I am, I followed the instructions here (
> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/localhost.html) to run tar in a way that
> would not allow the backuppc user to become root.
Is there a reason you're using tar rather than rsync? I run rsyn
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 02:43:12PM -0500, Frank J. Gómez wrote:
> Paranoid person that I am, I followed the instructions here (
> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/localhost.html) to run tar in a way that
> would not allow the backuppc user to become root.
>
> I tried wrapping tar up using the s
Paranoid person that I am, I followed the instructions here (
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/localhost.html) to run tar in a way that
would not allow the backuppc user to become root.
I tried wrapping tar up using the script in the documentation:
#!/bin/sh -f
exec /bin/tar -c $*
And that wor
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