#14 Backup to FTP server
I'm in a secure environment, all machines are allowed to
write to a backup directory on the FTP server (but not
read or overwrite) and I would like partimage to do this.
Also (of course) read from the FTP server to restore.
A useful feature with this would be internal encryption
where the image is encrypted before it leaves partimage
and isn't decrypted until just before it hits the disk on a
restore.
You may realise I dislike the requirement for a special
'partimaged' server as it severly limits my options as to
where to put the backup.
Other nice options would be:
Use ssh or rsh and a standard shell (or a scponly shell) at
the remote.
Use the 'rmt' protocol.
Use 'store and forward', ie create a file on a local
filesystem then pass it's name to a script or command
once it's that file has been completed.
This last one especially would let you do lots of useful
things (eg encryption) and deposit the files on almost any
server including 'unsane' ones (smbclient, curl, lftp,
kermit, email ...!!) at the cost of a single 'chunk' staging
area.
PS: This is all against 0.6.
Discussion
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With FTP support in Partimage, it would be possible to
directly save disk partitions from a Linux client to a
Windows server (or any other OS with an FTP server).
This would extend the usefulness of Partimage.
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I like the idea of backing up to an FTP server (or other
type of server).
It seems to me that some sort of plug-in environment would
be best for this; something that allows the user a way to
choose the method and that allows additional methods to be
added easily.
If there were a shell command that took the image as stdin,
the command could forward the data stream to another
machine via ssh or some other protocol. The other
interesting feature for this would be to put a CD burning
command there so that stdin would be burned directly onto
the CD. (In that case, there would need to be some way for
this plug-in to interact with the user so that the user
would know when to change media and such. And writing
on-the-fly along with compression might be too much for
some slower hardware.)
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I also need this resource...Because I don't have a partimage
server but I have a FTP server.
Thanks!