[Dirvish] Push Backups?

[Quentin Hartman]

I know Keith doesn't like them, but I prefer to have my backups run via push, rather than pull. I prefer this because I can have the backup job run as a privileged user (necessary to read all the files) locally but then connect to the backup server as a normal user. This means I don't have the potential exposure of allowing remote root-level logins on my servers, or having passwordless keys for root running around. I think this is a good thing. It makes key management a bit more secure and sane (imho). 

Is there a recognized way to do this with Dirvish? I found a patch that was submitted to the list in 2006 that enabled this functionality, but I never saw if it got added officially, nor have I found any documentation that refers to it. I plan to dig into this some more tomorrow and do some testing and experimentation, but was hoping that a quick note to this list might be able to save me some time.

Thanks!

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Quentin Hartman
Senior System Administrator
Concentric Sky
www.concentricsky.com