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Re: "client" and "server" terminology backwards in the docs?
2005-12-03 23:03:36
mindfuq AT verizon DOT net wrote:
I've been reading the documentation on amanda.org, and it seems the
authors have this terminology flipped. Servers always passively
*listen* for a connection, while clients are active initiators. In
the Amanda model, the centralized backup host is actually a *client*,
because it's the active "consumer" that initiates connections, whereas
all the nodes on the network that have data to backup are servers
listening for a client - and serving the data on request.
Well, the 'usual' viewpoint is that servers have the resources, and the
clients request them. So if you consider the backup device a resource,
then the terminology is correct.
OTOH if you consider the data a resource, and the backup device as
requesting it, then you are correct....
It's really a matter of viewpoint....
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