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 1QtDGp-0002yt-BE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 06:37:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 02E4C21C48A; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 06:36:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq1.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq1.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.164]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 459E521C38C for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 06:35:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.142] (helo=smtp11.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq1.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QtDFh-0001M8-JU for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:35:53 +0200 Received: from 5ed027a1.cm-7-1a.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([94.208.39.161] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp11.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QtDFg-0000Ry-4J for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:35:52 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88C54C26 for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:39:26 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id WQmrYR0FTQVE for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:39:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: from eve.localnet (eve.lan.antarean.org [10.20.13.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2A92470E for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:39:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Joost Roeleveld To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} rdiff-backup: push or pull? Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:35:50 +0200 Message-ID: <54732072.QyOj10dyxT@eve> User-Agent: KMail/4.7.0 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.7.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1QtDFg-0000Ry-4J X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=-0.746, vereist 5, BAYES_00 -1.90, KHOP_DYNAMIC 1.24, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.98, RP_MATCHES_RCVD -1.07) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: joost@antarean.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: ac8c08f8850bd8cd9bc028979407dc6a 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. -- Joost