From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NkiI7-0003tu-NZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:18:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5B5ECE100E for ; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:18:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f176.google.com (mail-pz0-f176.google.com [209.85.222.176]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14517E0891 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:52:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk6 with SMTP id 6so1556412pzk.10 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:52:18 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=wmY1LrcquGVacivp/PMiJRfQkV91LDOYvZMabGKlip0=; b=krBWBzDIJf3ev0CKQe1tAd8CIu+OOdK7s0XiJCZu2clmQd5hZWMdkMzt1NyoWxbefQ oMMBZayBr+MxfIfEuqlCV3J41onHaX4APeScCj+ONkf3JUyKswduDqkUPyyRVZOc0Mmj 4eXeRLTQim9zBw+T9PQLm0EGFFRCfMPTTIY2A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=LzysjHzKkAO/nELR0+h9gAK8+x/5TXoERIjDA3bc3ShV4h9VC1NZ7iTHgbVTD7CTZw Ldd9B8Mu4MmpXiOGj9IOPyH8zaVGbpEr0ZALYrEGIKoUtMDfXFb6qij84/P7H4oiShuD gnljMC484SKvjBSdXiJqSWUKKdA6ISF02Gpsw= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.115.65.28 with SMTP id s28mr743532wak.114.1267120338428; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:52:18 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <49bf44f10911190844i5cb77185me60d5eb44ff2bfc7@mail.gmail.com> <20100224205159.71dd79be@digimed.co.uk> <201002251741.13525.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:52:18 -0800 Message-ID: <49bf44f11002250952r3bc25016s79037c6f6e494f64@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] rsync backup system From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 69bdb752-8ba6-4e5d-8ba2-fe2df6ca3bab X-Archives-Hash: 402fd0086e194efd75a3b56855c8cbee >> 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