BackupPC

Chris Finley writes:

> I think built-in support for rsyncd over SSH would be pretty easy to do, 
> comments are welcome.
> I realize that rsync over ssh is much easier to set-up, but this does 
> not seem to work with Windows clients, even with the latest cygwin 
> update. Also, rsyncd has some advantages with its rsyncd.conf file.
> 
> Are there any problems you see with this approach?
> I would be happy to take a stab at the coding, but I can see that Craig 
> is a far better Perl programmer - my efforts might not be appreciated as 
> much as I would like.

Looks good.  I'd be happy to look at your implementation and
include it in the next release.

Craig

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd over SSH From: Craig Barratt <cbarratt@us...> - 2005-04-23 05:53 Les Mikesell writes: > On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 14:23, Chris Finley wrote: > > > > I think built-in support for rsyncd over SSH would be pretty easy to do, > > comments are welcome. > > I think it is a great idea. It would also be useful to allow the ssh > providing the tunnel to originate from the client side (firewalling, > dynamic IP's, mobile machines, etc.), but it makes the scheduling > a little harder to arrange. I think it is a good idea too. For client initiated backups, you could use cron to run BackupPC_serverMsg on the server to start a backup. But then any break-in on a client allows the user to ssh (as user backuppc) to the BackupPC server. That could compromise your whole network. Craig

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