Benjamin Smith wrote: > > We've combined our contractual requirement for nightly off-site backups and > snapshotting using Linux and rsync. I've put it together into a project > written in PHP that you're free to use: > > http://www.effortlessis.com/backupbuddy So here's a question from another direction regarding your project and others that have this in common: is there a technical reason you can't use a push mode to an rsync daemon, and require passwordless SSH instead? At home I have a basic FC4 laptop hidden under the stereo that runs MPD to stream music, and it doubles as a basic backup server (external USB disk). This laptop has a static IP, but all others are on DHCP. What makes sense to me is that the server runs rsyncd in a target mode, something like: [laptop1] path = /mtn/usbdrive/backups/laptop1 (other options...) Then from the client, it simply runs the backup client indicating who the server is and it's target, supplying the password (rsync user at server1::laptop1 etc.). To me this seems a lot more architecturally simple (and if you want SSH, you set it up after-the-fact as the transport) and so forth. Yet, no project (I can find, rdiff-backup would be nice) does this - is there a reason? Why does everyone insist on dealing with SSH and keys? (ignore the encryption benefit) -te -- Troy Engel | Systems Engineer Fluid, Inc | http://www.fluid.com