Hi,

If I understand well, this looks very interesting for different reasons :
- backup of hosts which are not routable
- no open port needed on the client

Do you have any tips to do this?

Thanks,
Samuel Bancal - Uni-GE

Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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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