Ing. Daniel Manrique wrote: > Hi all! > > Due to ongoing reorganization of our network, I'll be faced with having > several groups of clients behind firewalling routers. Behind each > router, clients will get a private address via DHCP. While the routers > themselves will have public, static IP, the clients inside each NATed > network will be basically a soupy mess, so assigning a port for each > client would be a chore. This wreaks havoc with having the backuppc > server contacting each client for backup, since the clients are > inaccessible from the outside, unless they are the ones starting the > connection as per usual transparent NAT/proxying. > > I think the easiest way would be having a client on each computer, being > responsible for waking up and initiating communication with the backuppc > server, which will have a public IP address. Has this been done, is it > possible? > > My second option at this point is to establish a sort of VPN between the > NATed segments and my backuppc server. Does someone have a setup like this? > > > Behind each router, you could pick one machine as your primary machine. Then NFS mount the important stuff on the other machines. For instance, 'primarymachine' would have /mnt/machine1, /mnt/machine2, etc. Then BackupPC only has to connect to 'primarymachine' and perform backups of /etc, /home, /mnt/machine1, /mnt/machine2, etc.
You might need to mount the shares with the no_root_squash option, in order to allow read access to everything. -Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
