On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 11:27:54PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 22:08, Stephen Vaughan wrote: > > Does anyone know if it is possible to push a backup from a client TO > > backuppc? I've got several boxes running rsyncd and backuppc calls > > them to send data back and forth. I have a box that is firewalled and > > I want to be able to still backup this machine, but in the other > > direction. So the client machine makes a connection to backuppc and > > tells it what to do.. something along those lines. > > There is nothing built in to work that way but you might > establish a vpn connection from the client to the server > with something like openvpn at backup time or do some > tricky port-forwarding over an ssh connection.
not especially tricky - the client could come in with something like: ssh -R 2222:localhost:22 backuppc_server "some-command-to-start-backuppc-to-client" and the server could be configured to do "ssh -p 2222 localhost " instead of "ssh backupclient" for that client. a performance downside is that it would be encrypted twice as it went through the ssh tunnel. Might or might not make a difference depending how much CPU you have. danno -- dan pritts - systems administrator - internet2 734/352-4953 office 734/834-7224 mobile ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
