Hal Vaughan wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > There are distinct advantages to a backup push system. Not proposing > > that you change away from it. But I tend to pull backups from /home > > to the backup server. This means that whatever is in /home comes over > > whether it is associated with a user's home directory or not. All I > > manage is machines. Not machines and users. > > How is it that a pull system would get more? I didn't know there'd > be files associated with a user that are outside of their home > directory.
I have backup configured to pull from a machine. Any users in /home are all backed up because /home is backed up and without any need to specifically enumerate a particular user. Add a user, their home directory will be in /home, they will get backed up automatically. It has nothing to do with files outside of a user's home directory. A pull can miss if the machine isn't up. So this isn't good for machines that are not on all of the time. But with a push system hosts that are only on some of the time can push their backup when they are up. So often a push is better. Bob
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