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From: Bill Longman <bill.longman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} rdiff-backup: push or pull?
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:41:11
Message-Id: 4E4A731B.7030501@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] {OT} rdiff-backup: push or pull? by Grant
1 On 08/15/2011 09:58 PM, Grant wrote:
2 > the backup server. If I push, I have to allow read/write access of my
3 > backups via SSH keys. If I pull, I have to enable root logins on each
4 > system to be backed-up, allow root read access of each system via SSH
5
6 +1 push.
7
8 But my question is, "Why do you assert that you must allow root access?"
9 Surely each machine can do its own backups and plop them into a
10 directory accessible to a "backup" login.

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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} rdiff-backup: push or pull? Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>