the_mandrill's questions

We have a bacula server and several storage daemons - a local one on a gigabit network and a remote one in an office that we have a slow link to. We want to back up a remote server on a different network to the remote daemon, but we don't want it to saturate our office's link.

So the question is, if a backup runs between the remote client daemon and the remote storage daemon, does the director set up a connection between the two, or does the director pull the data from the client and then transfers to the storage daemon?

I'm trying to find a nice way of checking some text in order to set a variable. For instance to perform the logic: 'if the version string is 1.x then set a flag'. One way of doing this is:

versionFlag="0"
if grep -q "^1.*" versionfile; then
  versionFlag="1"
fi

which is a little verbose. If I want to switch on multiple possibilities then that's easier:

case `grep "^1.*" versionfile` in
  1.*)
    echo "version 1"
    ;;
...
esac

But is there a nice one line way of just setting a flag to be true or false if some text matches a regexp or a wildcard?