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...his term is already commonly used for "backup restoration". The goal is to get the best of both pull and push backup methods. Let the "client" have some data to be backed up to the "server". The client is granted key-based ssh login to the server, with a command="rsyncwrapper" directive (ssh forced command) in an authorized_keys file. This wrapper on the server essentially launches an rsync session in "client mode" which expects stdin/stdout to be already connected to a remote shell (on the client machine, through the very same ssh connection), and uses i...