On 1/28/2010 3:13 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
We used to do it like that - rsync over SSH, but the amount of support calls we got with this solution was just too much.
So, instead we mounted the backup volumes on the servers, and the end users (most of them being developers & graphic designers) could have direct access to their backups.
This is probably getting repetitive, but backuppc provides a web interface where server 'owners' can browse their own backups, select what they want, and click a button to restore or download to their desktop. It's not part of the distribution, but I think someone even has a fuse filesystem layer that gives normal-looking read access to the compressed/pooled storage. I don't know if you can wrap samba on top of that, though - or what kind of performance it has.