On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 08:10:42AM +0200, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > Excerpts from Craig Ringer's message of 2010-05-05 01:19:02 +0200: > > To back up transient machines like laptops. > You can back up laptops just fine using a VPN or IPv6 (if you either use > Mobile IPv6 (I know nobody who does) or update your DNS (I do that)).
That's nice for you. However, in enterprise networks, it's likely that the backup folks can't redesign the network, laptop support, DHCP, and DNS architectures to meet their requirements. The backup system needs to fit into the existing network rather than vice versa. In general, a proper client/server architecture would simplify a lot of things. Not just mobile laptops, but NAT, SSL/TLS and firewall configs. It might even enable client-initiated restores -- implement a same-origin policy, trust clients to restore their own files, and deleted-file restores become a lot simpler. - Morty ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
