Re: Central Backup Server

[On 10 Jan, @ 16:17, Boris wrote in "Re: [hdup-user] Central Backup ..."]
> 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.

correct,

> 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.

but can't this be done already:

ssh client -e hdup monthly @server

the client will then start a hdup, which will inturn
invoke an hdup on the server which puts the data on
disk.

Or I'm missing the obvious here? :)

grtz Miek