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On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 16:41, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> A much better way is to run a dedicated agent on the client. If the server |
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> needs to schedule backups, it can ask the agent to do so using regular tcp |
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> traffic. The client can then do it's backup and rsync it over to the server |
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> when it's done, and that push can be done as a regular user on both ends. The |
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> actual backing up on the client must be done by root of course, no other user |
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> has the necessary access. |
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Sounds great. Is there any software that works this way? |
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Ward |
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