12:56pm, Les Mikesell wrote: > Jon Forrest wrote: > >> One reason why I think my idea has promise is because this is how >> all the commercial backup products I've ever used work. Adding >> this feature to BackupPC would just bring it closer to >> the commercial backup products. > > Don't those products all require a client side agent, at least for > cross-platform operation? I think it would theoretically be possible to > get a target directory listing with the transfer methods that backuppc > supports but it wouldn't be trivial. > > --
As long as you are using ssh for access to the client, you don't need a client-side agent. Personally, I don't know if I would use it myself, but it's a good idea. Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
