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From: Bill Longman <bill.longman@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} rdiff-backup: push or pull?
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 06:39:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E4A731B.7030501@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN0CFw3OreQZtLVy45A_b-dZp8j8Yw1Lbvb_dyNc341fByuynA@mail.gmail.com>

On 08/15/2011 09:58 PM, Grant wrote:
> the backup server.  If I push, I have to allow read/write access of my
> backups via SSH keys.  If I pull, I have to enable root logins on each
> system to be backed-up, allow root read access of each system via SSH

+1 push.

But my question is, "Why do you assert that you must allow root access?"
Surely each machine can do its own backups and plop them into a
directory accessible to a "backup" login.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-16 13:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-16  4:58 [gentoo-user] {OT} rdiff-backup: push or pull? Grant
2011-08-16  6:35 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-08-16 23:50   ` Grant
2011-08-17  6:07     ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-08-17 17:18       ` Grant
2011-08-18  6:13         ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-08-19  1:01           ` Grant
2011-08-19  6:07             ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-08-19 17:13               ` Grant
2011-08-17  6:14     ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-08-17 17:35       ` Grant
2011-08-19 17:14         ` Michael Orlitzky
2011-08-19 18:00           ` Grant
2011-08-19 19:06             ` Michael Orlitzky
2011-08-19 19:58               ` Grant
2011-08-20  8:12                 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-08-17  6:15     ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-08-17 17:37       ` Grant
2011-08-17 18:54       ` Alex Schuster
2011-08-17 20:47         ` Grant
2011-08-17 21:49           ` Alex Schuster
2011-08-17 22:03             ` Alan McKinnon
2011-08-18  0:35               ` Peter Humphrey
2011-08-18  6:30             ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-08-19  1:51   ` Grant
2011-08-19  6:13     ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-08-19 17:35       ` Grant
2011-08-21 19:10         ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-08-16 13:39 ` Bill Longman [this message]
2011-08-16 14:04   ` Alan McKinnon

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