Marty wrote:
> Nils Breunese (Lemonbit Internet) wrote:
> BackupPC can certainly be used as a private remote backup
>> service, but mainly the problem is your 'anywhere in the world', as the
>> hostname/IP address/NetBIOS name is a constant in this system.
>
> If it doesn't handle that now, that seems like an important shortcoming of
> BackupPC, to be included a feature wishlist. I think it would be a common
> issue
> with backing up or restoring to laptops. It might be also exist in corporate
> WANs or campus area networks.
>
You could arrange this with a vpn connection like openvpn that presents
a known address for the connection, or with dedictated ports for ssh
tunnels set up by the client. The web side will already work. If you
specify someone as an 'owner' of one or more machines, that is all that
the corresponding web login will be able to see.
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Les Mikesell
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