On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 06:41:48PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > So I'd prefer that backups are initiated on the remote PCs, and that > > even the file set to backup was controlled on the remote PCs. All the > > Linux server is doing then is streaming the data to tape. > > > > Can anyone recommend some software to achieve this?
> I thought of one thing immediately, there is some package that reads email > messgages to it (the server) and using some authentication scheme then > processes the email message as a 'sys admin command'. Thus you have the > remote pcs' email 'back me up' and the email goes to the debian server and > it says ok. Thanks for the suggestion. I was really hoping there might be a well integrated client/server solution where the Windows client would look like a standard backup solution with GUI etc but back up to a remote server. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]