[nycbug-talk] Setting up a FreeBSD "backup" box

[Matt Juszczak]

> Have you considered installing rsyncd on each of the clients machines
> and then having your backup server pull from the clients?
>
> This eliminates all the issues with having to setup logins for everyone.
>
> On top of that, if the number of clients grow to the point where a
> single
> server can't keep up, it becomes easier to spread the job among multiple
> servers.

Yep, we considered the pull method, but many of these servers are self 
managed.