Hello Kern,

2017-11-14 15:31 GMT+01:00 Kern Sibbald <k...@sibbald.com>:

>
> On 11/14/2017 08:46 AM, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote:
>
> Hello Kern,
>
> 2017-11-13 20:13 GMT+01:00 Kern Sibbald <k...@sibbald.com>:
>
>> Well it is actually the Bacula File Daemon which initiates the backup at
>> the request of the user.
>>
> :) We can interpret it in many different ways.
>
> It is an actually a bconsole which connects to the Bacula File Daemon
> which talks to the Director. The bconsole and the Bacula FD are the proxy
> tools in this case. They are required but they not make the event happen.
>
>
> Yes you are right.  However, there is another part as well.  bconsole (at
> least by us) is used for testing.  The "real" interface for the user to the
> Client Initiated Backup is the Tray-Monitor -- i.e. a GUI tool.
>

I can write a "bconsole like" application in, for example, Python, so it
won't be a bconsole or Tray-Monitor. But I don't call it a Python Initiated
Backup. :)

>
> To call it a Client (File Daemon) Initiated Backup the client has to do it
> yourself, no external tools or user who initiate the job.
>
>
> Client can have two meanings and we play on that a bit in this definition:
>

:)

And this is the clue I'd like to express from the beginning.

best regards
-- 
Radosław Korzeniewski
rados...@korzeniewski.net
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