On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 19:15 +0100, Carwyn Edwards wrote: > <summary>Stuff about identifying which network we are on to see if we > want to do backup.</summary> > > If I'm away at a conference with my laptop and they have WiFi access to > the internet, I don't care which network I am on. I still want to back > up my home directory though. > > If I'm working in a multi site corporation that has multiple backup > servers (one per site perhaps). I want to use the local backup server > not the one back home that's through a thin pipe. I'd want my laptop to > discover the local backup server and authenticate it to me and me to it. > > Ok these ideas don't quite work with the diskless Stateless model but > they are still valid when talking about homedir backup. > > Carwyn > If the client is configured to connect to a system via DNS name, that provides the enterprise with some flexibility like this. In Australia, homebackupsvr.corp.org could resolve to a different box than in the UK, etc. On the backend, I could workout how to merge them together on faster pipes. Such merging could get sticky of course and may be more of a 2.0 kind of thing. -- David Hollis <dhollis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
