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Is it possible to use rdiff-backup like rsync-daemon?
I mean, instead of using an ssh tunnel, could it be possible to
connect to a rdiff-backup deamon that do no use encryption like rsynd
does?

it would be easy to configure on windows host. So we could have a
central backup server that connects to clients that are running the
deamon.

Also encryption is not always required. In these casees it's just a
waste of resoruces.

What do you think about it?

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2010/11/25 Jacob Anawalt <jlanawalt < at > gmail.com>:
Look into the remote-schema option, search around for rdiff-backup and netcat, and there are ssh cipher options.

I found an article
http://osdir.com/ml/sysutils.backup.rdiff-backup.general/2006-02/msg00088.html
I read about --remote.schema but, honestly, I didn't digested it so well.

Could you please tell me if in the point 2 of the article, ssh is
involved or not?

Most of all, I'm wondering if there's an easy way to have a central
backup server that contact windows and linux clients to back up their
data.

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On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 12:14 +0100, Valerio Pachera wrote:
2010/11/25 Jacob Anawalt <jlanawalt < at > gmail.com>:
Look into the remote-schema option, search around for rdiff-backup and netcat, and there are ssh cipher options.

I found an article
http://osdir.com/ml/sysutils.backup.rdiff-backup.general/2006-02/msg00088.html
I read about --remote.schema but, honestly, I didn't digested it so well.

Could you please tell me if in the point 2 of the article, ssh is
involved or not?

Most of all, I'm wondering if there's an easy way to have a central
backup server that contact windows and linux clients to back up their
data.

Well, did you look at SafeKeep?
http://safekeep.sourceforge.net/

It's based on a central server that contacts linux clients to backup
the data. It automatically handles LVM snapshots, DB dumps (for MySQL
and Postgresql), uses nice(1) and ionice(1) to avoid overloading the
clients and the server, and does everything over ssh for security.

One drawback is that it doesn't currently work for Windows clients,
but there's nothing in the design preventing it to do so.

--
Dimi Paun <dimi < at > lattica.com>
Lattica, Inc.


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On 26/11/2010 11:14, Valerio Pachera wrote:
2010/11/25 Jacob Anawalt<jlanawalt < at > gmail.com>:
Look into the remote-schema option, search around for rdiff-backup and netcat, and there are ssh cipher options.
I found an article
http://osdir.com/ml/sysutils.backup.rdiff-backup.general/2006-02/msg00088.html
I read about --remote.schema but, honestly, I didn't digested it so well.

Could you please tell me if in the point 2 of the article, ssh is
involved or not?

Most of all, I'm wondering if there's an easy way to have a central
backup server that contact windows and linux clients to back up their
data.

You can certainly do this with a package such as (for Windows) TimeDicer
http://www.timedicer.co.uk. This uses rdiff-backup with ssh connection
managed by plink. But this is for 'push' backups - the clients contact
the server and send backups. Works well with a primary server on the
local network, and offsite mirror server for belt'n'braces protection.

Dominic



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