From: Les M. <les...@gm...> - 2011-03-08 20:39:41
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On 3/8/2011 2:24 PM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: > On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 15:09 -0500, Scott wrote: >> How do we handle laptops or similar machines that are rarely (or >> never) connected to the LAN or anywhere that I can open ports? Is it >> possible to install something on the client laptop/machine to make an >> outgoing connection to the server and initiate a backup, like an >> outgoing rsync to the server? > > Yes. You could have the client do this: > > ssh -R 20001:localhost:22 user@backupserver > > Then configure the client to use localhost port 20001: > > $Conf{ClientNameAlias} = 'localhost'; > $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -p 20001 ...'; > $Conf{PingCmd} = 'tcpping -p 20001 $host'; > > You'll need to install some tcpping (there are many) solution, or > disable ping. Or, if you want generic access you could install a VPN like openvpn - which could be restricted to the backuppc server or routed to everything on the LAN. -- Les Mikesell les...@gm... |