it is probably against your companies security policy, but to get around
this you can use cygwins ssh to connect to your PC at home for a tunnel,
rather than having your backuppc at home try to connect to your work PC.
You need the tunnel to be a stable consistant connection, that backuppc can
talk through. This way it looks like your work pc and backuppc machine are
on the same lan.
http://www.openoffice.org/scdocs/ddSSHGuide.html
or a google search on 'ssh tunnel cygwin' comes up with lots of hits.
Enjoy and let us know how tings work out for you.
(PS think about taking notes and writing a howto for the rest of us :)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gene
Horodecki
Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 12:06 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [BackupPC-users] Skirt a firewall
My place of business provides me with all kinds of firewalls and encryption
on my harddrive but, wonderfully, no backup protection at all. And so... I
am trying to backup my documents folder on my work laptop to my BackupPC
installation. But I have a problem. The desktop firewall policy that comes
as part of the image doesn't allow any incoming connections whatsoever. Is
there a way for me to backup this laptop with backuppc... I have cygwin sshd
installed.. So I'm hoping with some creative tunneling or something like
that, it can work. Thanks!
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