From 2c7253dcbb11bbdb0a18c2b634d3259d252cb949 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tavlor Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 02:07:01 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] clarify who starts the remote agent It was unclear that the user _only_ needs to have borg installed on a remote system to use client/server mode. Hopefully this change makes it apparent that the user doesn't start anything on the remote system themselves. --- docs/faq.rst | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/faq.rst b/docs/faq.rst index 2beee63e7..02e8867d2 100644 --- a/docs/faq.rst +++ b/docs/faq.rst @@ -13,11 +13,11 @@ What is the difference between a repo on an external hard drive vs. repo on a se If Borg is running in client/server mode, the client uses SSH as a transport to talk to the remote agent, which is another Borg process (Borg is installed on -the server, too). The Borg server is doing storage-related low-level repo -operations (get, put, commit, check, compact), while the Borg client does the -high-level stuff: deduplication, encryption, compression, dealing with -archives, backups, restores, etc., which reduces the amount of data that goes -over the network. +the server, too) started automatically by the client. The Borg server is doing +storage-related low-level repo operations (get, put, commit, check, compact), +while the Borg client does the high-level stuff: deduplication, encryption, +compression, dealing with archives, backups, restores, etc., which reduces the +amount of data that goes over the network. When Borg is writing to a repo on a locally mounted remote file system, e.g. SSHFS, the Borg client only can do file system operations and has no agent