Backing up a directory to a remote file system

[Karl Schmidt]

Jason Clinton wrote:

  The extention of that is to archive the rsync'd
> directory on the back-up server locally. That seems like killing a
> cockroach with a shotgun, though. Three reasons this won't work: I don't
> want copies of their directory structure sitting on the backup server in
> an unarchived state, the rsync stream is not compressed, 

The rsync stream is very compressed. In fact, if a file changes it 
calculates the differences and only sends that as compressed data - very 
fast.

I don't want to
> have to manage an rsync server in addition to all of the other ones I'm
> already managing.

You don't need a rsync server -- just rsync -e ssh  -au 
remotefoo.com:/file tree /local_image-tree

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