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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:11:20 +0100
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] rsync backup system
From: Ward Poelmans <wpoely86@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 16:41, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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