Re: [BackupPC-users] tar on localhost (and shell escaping)

[Jeffrey J. K. <bac...@ko...>]

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
properly). Then there is no compression for the local machine...

$Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '/usr/bin/sudo $rsyncPath $argList+';