>> A much better way is to run a dedicated agent on the client. If the server >> needs to schedule backups, it can ask the agent to do so using regular tcp >> traffic. The client can then do it's backup and rsync it over to the server >> when it's done, and that push can be done as a regular user on both ends. The >> actual backing up on the client must be done by root of course, no other user >> has the necessary access. > > Sounds great. Is there any software that works this way? > > Ward
I'd like to know too. :) - Grant