From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] rsync backup system
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:52:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49bf44f11002250952r3bc25016s79037c6f6e494f64@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c1c10dab1002250811s18358bb0te145e05d494181@mail.gmail.com>
>> A much better way is to run a dedicated agent on the client. If the server
>> needs to schedule backups, it can ask the agent to do so using regular tcp
>> traffic. The client can then do it's backup and rsync it over to the server
>> when it's done, and that push can be done as a regular user on both ends. The
>> actual backing up on the client must be done by root of course, no other user
>> has the necessary access.
>
> Sounds great. Is there any software that works this way?
>
> Ward
I'd like to know too. :)
- Grant
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-25 18:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-19 16:44 [gentoo-user] rsync backup system Grant
2009-11-19 17:25 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-11-19 18:19 ` Grant
2009-11-20 17:05 ` Ward Poelmans
2009-11-20 16:05 ` Grant
2009-11-20 22:08 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-24 19:02 ` Grant
2010-02-24 20:51 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-25 15:15 ` Ward Poelmans
2010-02-25 15:41 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-02-25 16:11 ` Ward Poelmans
2010-02-25 17:50 ` daid kahl
2010-02-26 13:23 ` Ward Poelmans
2010-02-26 17:33 ` daid kahl
2010-02-25 17:52 ` Grant [this message]
2010-03-17 15:33 ` Ward Poelmans
2010-02-25 17:45 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-25 16:06 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-11-19 17:58 ` Albert Hopkins
2009-11-19 18:18 ` Albert Hopkins
2009-11-20 16:03 ` Grant
2009-11-20 17:31 ` Albert Hopkins
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