On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 19:40, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 06:41:48PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > So I'd prefer that backups are initiated on the remote PCs, and that > > > even the file set to backup was controlled on the remote PCs. All the > > > Linux server is doing then is streaming the data to tape. > > > > > > Can anyone recommend some software to achieve this? > > > I thought of one thing immediately, there is some package that reads email > > messgages to it (the server) and using some authentication scheme then > > processes the email message as a 'sys admin command'. Thus you have the > > remote pcs' email 'back me up' and the email goes to the debian server and > > it says ok. > > Thanks for the suggestion. I was really hoping there might be a well > integrated client/server solution where the Windows client would look > like a standard backup solution with GUI etc but back up to a remote server.
It shouldn't be hard to write something like that, with the server daemon on the Linux box, written in Perl or Python, and the client written in Python/Tk (which could then run on Windows, Linux, BSD, and probably even Mac OS9 & X). -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "All machines, no matter how complex, are considered to be based on 6 simple elements: the lever, the pulley, the wheel and axle, the screw, the wedge and the inclined plane." Marilyn Vos Savant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]