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Re: remote backup from Windows PCs



On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 06:41:48PM -0400, kmark+debian@pipeline.com 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.

Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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