backups

[m.roth2006 at rcn.com]

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>Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 09:11:20 +1100
>From: Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>  
>
>On 05Jan2009 16:42, m.roth2006 at rcn.com <m.roth2006 at rcn.com> wrote:
>| Ok, I've *just* become aware of a new requirement, and that would seem
>| to preclude, say, Bacula. This is that I *cannot* have a backup initiated
>| from the repository server - it *must* be initiated client side. So,
>| what am I looking at, amanda, or am I back to say, rsync and/or scp?
>
>What if the client prods the repository server, which then starts a
>backup?

Not sure (from his response) if that's really acceptable. Heh - I think I found my next F/OSS project....

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