Re: [BackupPC-users] Client Push revisited

[Les M. <le...@fu...>]

On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 22:48, John Locke wrote:

> This isn't the issue--I've already got DHCP updating DNS with client
> hostnames. BackupPC can find the hosts, no problem. The issue is that I
> would rather keep server software (rsyncd, ssh, Windows
> Networking/Samba) off my mobile clients, and initiate backups from them
> so they don't have to enable/disable firewalls, etc. when connecting to
> untrusted networks.
> 
> Any other ideas?

You could set up an openvpn connection from each client to the
backuppc server when you want backups to happen, and configure
rsync or your firewalls to only work on that interface.  It's
not ideal since you can't easily tell when the backup is done
so you can disconnect but it would let you control the connection
from a roaming client.  I think someone posted instructions for
something similar using ssh port-forwarding a long time ago
on the mailing list.

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  Les Mikesell
   le...@fu...