Re: Central Backup Server

[On 11 Jan, @ 16:17, Boris wrote in "Re: [hdup-user] Central Backup ..."]
> On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 22:02 +0100, Miek Gieben wrote:
> > 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? :)
> 
> That works fine, as long as the client is able to make an ssh connection
> to the server.  It fails if the server doesn't run sshd, or if it is
> behind a firewall that doesn't allow incoming ssh, or if the
> administrator simply does not want to allow the client to have a
> passwordless ssh key that allows access to the server.  

which is indeed understandable. I don't really know if it possible
to piggy back on an open ssh connection. 

grtz Miek