On 2/18/06, Dan Pritts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
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Best Regards,
Stephen
