On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 16:41, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote: > A much better way is to run a dedicated agent on the client. If the server > needs to schedule backups, it can ask the agent to do so using regular tcp > traffic. The client can then do it's backup and rsync it over to the server > when it's done, and that push can be done as a regular user on both ends. The > actual backing up on the client must be done by root of course, no other user > has the necessary access.
Sounds great. Is there any software that works this way? Ward
