Backup question

[guilly]

I was wondering if anyone knows of any backup utilities that can be configured on a server that automatically backs up certain files from a host computer whenever that particular host logs onto the network?? I doubt this is possible but I thought it would be worth a shot.

Also, My server is running 7.04 with LAMP, the host would be a variety of OS X Leopard and Windows Vista.

Thanks

[Pro-reason]

That sort of thing would normally be initiated from the host computer, wouldn't it?

[powerpleb]

I was wondering if anyone knows of any backup utilities that can be configured on a server that automatically backs up certain files from a host computer whenever that particular host logs onto the network?? I doubt this is possible but I thought it would be worth a shot.

You could probably write a script that tests to see if hosts are connected and if they are, performs the backup. Then you could make it a cron job to happen how ever often you think necessary.

http://www.unixgeeks.org/security/ne...ix/cron-1.html

[guilly]

That sort of thing would normally be initiated from the host computer, wouldn't it?

I was thinking the same thing as well but I thought it was worth a shot any ways.

[guilly]

You could probably write a script that tests to see if hosts are connected and if they are, performs the backup. Then you could make it a cron job to happen how ever often you think necessary.

http://www.unixgeeks.org/security/ne...ix/cron-1.html

humm never thought of that. I'll check out the link thanks. Now I'm assuming the folders would need to be shared some how from the host p.c in order for the server to be able to access them correct?

thanks again

[DGortze380]

my guess is you would need a script in conjunction with the rsync command.