Re: Central Backup Server

On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 19:38 +0100, Miek Gieben wrote:

> > It would be a nice enhancement to hdup to allow server-initiated
> > backups, but isn't currently supported AFAIK.  I don't think it would be
> > that hard to implement.
> 
> I'm open for ideas,


The current remote mode, if I"m not mistaken, does approximately this:
- program starts on client
- initiate an ssh connection to server, invoking an hdup command line
- pass information through the resulting pipe, which remote hdup writes
to disk.

So the server-initiated case, it would be nearly the same:

- program starts on server
- initiate an ssh connection to client, invoking an hdup command line
- receive information through the resulting pipe, and write to disk.

It would seem only the start-up and shutdown code would be affected; the
whole remote backup protocol could stay the same.

Bng

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