Re: backing up remote servers

[Glenn Meyer <glenn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Noah wrote:

> Hey there,
>
> Well I just built a nice happy Fedora box with a ton of dirve space here at
> home and trying to get a scheme for using it to backup two servers I have at
> my colo facility.
>
> what are my other options for backup?  I know there is rsync.  is rsync
> incredibly insecure?  what else is out there?
>
> thanks in advance,
>
> Noah 
>
>  
tar cf - /home/somedir /etc /var/lib/portage/world | ssh 
someothermachine ">backup.tar"