Hi, the main Problem is, we have only a few free ip's and many laptops. But there are only a few laptops active at the same time. So if someone starts his laptop, he gets a free ip. And people will start the backup when they want, during a coffee break for example.Thats why the server need to know which backup should be run and on which ip.
But you see, there are a few problems. I wont give someone the root-access to the backupserver, the backupserver don't know at which ip and on what time he should run the backup :-( My first idea was to give each laptop user a way to info the server about his ip and to trigger the backup process for this laptop, but until now i find no way to get this work. Grez. Frank Dave Howorth wrote .. > Noel Kelly wrote: > > Dave Howorth wrote: > >> Frank Lüken wrote: > >>> Hi! > >>> > >>> Can i config dirvish that way, that i can initialize the backup from > >>> the client-pc? > >>> > >>> Still i use a Dirvish backup server which connect to some client pc's > >>> and start the backup process. But in my network are notebooks too and > >>> these notebooks have a dynamic ip and name. So i want to configure > >>> dirvish at each notebook and than the users should be able to run the > >>> backup by themselves. Can i do this and if yes, how must i configure > >>> dirvish? > >> You can do it by writing a shell script that you invoke on the server > >> from the client via ssh. The shell script should run dirvish on the > >> appropriate vault. This means your client machines have login access > to > >> your server to invoke a root process. That can cause security problems > >> unless done very carefully. I don't believe dirvish offers the facility > >> directly, for that reason. > > > > I guess the problem Frank has is that the server won't know the IP of > > the client it has to talk to as he said the hostnames and IPs are all > > dynamic. There must be a way of passing this though but not sure how > to > > get that into dirvish. > > Hmm, hadn't spotted that :( > > I have trouble understanding why each laptop, or user, or whatever > entity actually 'owns' the dataset doesn't/can't have a persistent name? > If there's a persistent dataset that needs to be backed up it'd be most > odd if it couldn't be named (by a file in a well-known location, for > example) > > Given that, then give the laptops a [auxiliary] DNS mapping that locates > the dataset and use that in scripts, dirvish config etc. > > I suspect the real problem is actually simpler than described :) I guess > Frank will describe it in more detail if he hasn't seen a solution yet! > > Cheers, Dave > _______________________________________________ > Dirvish mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
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