Homedir backup (was Re: "Stateless Linux" project)

David Hollis dhollis at davehollis.com
Wed Sep 15 18:43:44 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 19:15 +0100, Carwyn Edwards wrote:
> <summary>Stuff about identifying which network we are on to see if we 
> want to do backup.</summary>
> 
> If I'm away at a conference with my laptop and they have WiFi access to 
> the internet, I don't care which network I am on. I still want to back 
> up my home directory though.
> 
> If I'm working in a multi site corporation that has multiple backup 
> servers (one per site perhaps). I want to use the local backup server 
> not the one back home that's through a thin pipe. I'd want my laptop to 
> discover the local backup server and authenticate it to me and me to it.
> 
> Ok these ideas don't quite work with the diskless Stateless model but 
> they are still valid when talking about homedir backup.
> 
> Carwyn
> 

If the client is configured to connect to a system via DNS name, that
provides the enterprise with some flexibility like this.  In Australia,
homebackupsvr.corp.org could resolve to a different box than in the UK,
etc.  On the backend, I could workout how to merge them together on
faster pipes.  Such merging could get sticky of course and may be more
of a 2.0 kind of thing.

-- 
David Hollis <dhollis at davehollis.com>





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