Noel Kelly wrote: > Dave Howorth wrote: >> Frank Lüken wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> Can i config dirvish that way, that i can initialize the backup from >>> the client-pc? >>> >>> Still i use a Dirvish backup server which connect to some client pc's >>> and start the backup process. But in my network are notebooks too and >>> these notebooks have a dynamic ip and name. So i want to configure >>> dirvish at each notebook and than the users should be able to run the >>> backup by themselves. Can i do this and if yes, how must i configure >>> dirvish? >> You can do it by writing a shell script that you invoke on the server >> from the client via ssh. The shell script should run dirvish on the >> appropriate vault. This means your client machines have login access to >> your server to invoke a root process. That can cause security problems >> unless done very carefully. I don't believe dirvish offers the facility >> directly, for that reason. > > I guess the problem Frank has is that the server won't know the IP of > the client it has to talk to as he said the hostnames and IPs are all > dynamic. There must be a way of passing this though but not sure how to > get that into dirvish.
Hmm, hadn't spotted that :( I have trouble understanding why each laptop, or user, or whatever entity actually 'owns' the dataset doesn't/can't have a persistent name? If there's a persistent dataset that needs to be backed up it'd be most odd if it couldn't be named (by a file in a well-known location, for example) Given that, then give the laptops a [auxiliary] DNS mapping that locates the dataset and use that in scripts, dirvish config etc. I suspect the real problem is actually simpler than described :) I guess Frank will describe it in more detail if he hasn't seen a solution yet! Cheers, Dave _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
