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.
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Les Mikesell
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