>>>>> On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 23:24:38 -0400, ROC <roryoc@nc.rr.com> said:

> The tar/ssh is good for secure copies, but, on Solaris at least, I found 
> it to take about 10 times longer (probably due to all the 
> pipelining/encrypting/decrypting/network handshaking? ) than straight 
> FTP, so not a good option for lots of data (i.e. over a few dozen MB or 
> so) if time is any kind of issue.

If the network used for the backup is secure enough, using rsh instead
of ssh may be an option to avoid encryption overhead.
Or, using rsync over ssh (for secure backup), or using raw rsync is
worth considering, too.
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soda