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.
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David Hollis <dhollis(a)davehollis.com>