[oclug]scp to backup?

[Milan Budimirovic]

On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 22:07, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 06/11/02 Bob Lockie did speaketh:
> 
> > I'm thinking of using scp to backup the contents of a machine.
> > Is that unreasonable?
> 
>     I'd say so, since scp will copy everything regardless of whether it's
> changed or not. I recommend rsync instead. 
> 

Or tar. Just use the "--rsh-command=/usr/bin/ssh" option.

:=)