backing up remote servers

[Robert Locke]

On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 16:48 -0800, 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 
> 
Noah,

Check out the rsync manpage and in particular review the -e option.
Near as I can tell, when using ssh, I would NOT declare it as
"insecure"....

Enjoy,

--Rob