On Oct 18, 2010, at 8:26 AM, Geert Stappers <Geert.Stappers AT vanadgroup DOT 
com> wrote:

> Op 20101018 om 03:45 schreef Dan Langille:
>> On 10/11/2010 4:55 AM, Geert Stappers wrote:
>>> 
>>> bcp, Bacula CoPy, copies files from one bacula file daemon to
>>> another bacula-fd. Reading from the source computer is like making a backup
>>> and writting to the destination is like doing a restore.
>>> 
>>> So the copy is done by a backup and a restore at the same moment
>>> without a storage-deamon involved.
>> 
>> Why do you want these?  What's wrong with just using scp?
> 
> `scp` does authentication on user basis. `bcp` will use system wide
> authentication on the "bacula passwords". So for `scp` one has to exchange
> ssh keys for each user, for `bcp` is that already done.
> My intented use case for `bcp` is for synchronisation data files for several
> users without the burden of ssh-key mangement for all those (system) users.
> 
> `bcp` uses the "backup ethernet segment" by default. `scp` tends to prefer
> the production network.
> 
> 
> Groeten
> Geert Stappers
> 

Bacula does backups. 

You want rsync

-- 
Dan Langille
http://langille.org/


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