Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} rdiff-backup: push or pull?

[Joost Roeleveld <joost@antarean.org>]

On Monday, August 15, 2011 09:58:00 PM Grant wrote:
> I'm setting up an automated rdiff-backup system and I'm stuck between
> pushing the backups to the backup server, and pulling the backups to
> 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
> keys, and I have to deal with openvpn or ssh -R so my laptop can back
> up from behind foreign routers.  The conventional wisdom online seems
> to indicate pulling is better, but pushing seems like it might be
> better to me.  Do you push or pull?

I would push, to be honest.

You can seperate the backups by giving each system a different account where 
to store the backups.
This way you can also have better control over when to do the backup. If your 
laptop hooks up via VPN just to quickly check email over an expensive or slow 
link, you might not want the backup to start downloading all the pictures you 
took during the holiday or that 300-page manuscript you wrote for your book.

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Joost