Use Rsyncd. It runs as a service on each client box as root (or some other user with appropriate disk privileges), and the backuppc client gains no user privileges on the client box, rather it communicates to retrieve data. There is no real client push model for BackupPC, only protocols with lower security risk. Besides, a client-push model, meaning a client initiates a transfer, would be impossible to schedule on a heavily loaded server.
JH John Hannfield wrote: > Hello > > I've just installed BackupPC and love it. It's really great, and > great to see an open source application which competes with > similar enterprise level products. > > I only need to backup Linux servers with rsync over SSH, and have set > up a test deployement of BackupPC as described in the docs. But the > current model is a server pull, which means the backup server has > potential root on all my client machines. I would prefer a client push > model. Has anyone devised a method of using BackupPC with rsync in > a push model? > > If so, I would love to hear how you have done it. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
