Johan Ehnberg wrote at about 15:56:06 +0200 on Friday, December 19, 2008: > Hi Backuppers! > > I'm working on a way to allow client-initiated backups using SSH. I have > a few variants working already, and I will make the documentation public > soon. For this, your ideas on a few topics would be very much appreciated: >
Do you need anything more than the following one-liner to initiate a backup ssh backu...@backuppcserver /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg ba\ ckup $hostname or similar variants using other server messages or the raw program, BackupPC_dump > - Any earlier implementations I should know about? > - Features you would like to see? > - Specific use cases that could be covered? > - Anything you want to know from me? > > The variants I have working now vary from a passive vpn-like idea to the > client being completely in charge of running backups, all with very > few changes to the basic idea, and it integrates nicely with the windows > rsyncd package. > > Moreover, this works with rsync, rsyncd and windows and linux clients. I > don't see why it wouldn't work with smb and tar as well as other OS:s > but these are currently untested. > > There are also dev-related questions, especially this functionality: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backuppc-de...@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00170.html > The functionality is not included in current releases, maybe later or > perhaps the Zmanda people are interested in making it a reality? > > Best regards, > Johan > > -- > Johan Ehnberg > > Email: jo...@ehnberg.net > GSM: +358503209688 > WWW: http://www.ehnberg.net/johan/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
