backing up remote servers

[Glenn Meyer]

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 
>
>  
>
tar cf - /home/somedir /etc /var/lib/portage/world | ssh 
someothermachine ">backup.tar"