Les Mikesell wrote: > 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. !!! That pretty much describes exactly how I have my own laptop configured... it's always on a separate wireless network, connected back to my LAN via OpenVPN. It has a known DNS address on my LAN that points to the OpenVPN subnet. The wireless interface is firewalled, but the OpenVPN interface is open... Works great so far (though a lot slower than the clients on the LAN... took most of a day to backup my laptop the first time).
I hadn't thought of doing that for my clients still stuck in Windows. That may be a solution. But it wasn't that long ago that I persuaded them to switch to "client push" as being better/more reliable that "server pull"! We ran into all sorts of Windows ACL issues trying to pull data down to a Linux server, and these have mostly disappeared by using Cygwin with OpenSSH/Rsync and a simple batch file running under the Windows scheduler to push backups to the server. (I had no end of trouble trying to get cron to work in Windows...) In other words, what I've got running at that site is working great for them... I was just hoping I could somehow tie in the BackupPC CGI interface to let them browse through and download files through the web, and see the status of various backups on different hosts--they would love using that. But given how often they're roaming with their laptops, I'm thinking our current solution is better from a security/simplicity standpoint. Thanks for your thoughts... Cheers, -- John Locke "Open Source Solutions for Small Business Problems" published by Charles River Media, June 2004 http://www.freelock.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
