On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 at 10:35pm, Philip J. Hollenback wrote
> So my thought was that I would have the gateway system that sits
> between these two nets nfs-mount the filesystems from the system I
> want to back up. amanda could then back up the nfs dirs. Any problem
> with that?
> I think this would work ok if I used gnu tar, but I have a problem:
> the system I want to back up is a laptop, so it's not always on the
> net. Thus, I need some way for the backup server to tell the gateway
> to do the nfs mounts at backup time, and skip them if the laptop is
> not available.
>
> Problem: how does the amanda user on the backup server tell the root
> user on the gateway to make the nfs mounts? If I can do that, it's a
> simple matter to do some sort of wrapper script around the backup
> process that takes care of the mounts.
>
> Any ideas on that? Only thing I've thought of so far is some sort of
> tomfoolery with ssh, like allowing root logins w/o passwords. Seems
> dangerous, though.
>
> P.
>
>
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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
