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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.