I got this to work awesome yestrday. Took me all day to figure it out but
now I can kick up a backup in a couple of minutes.
I can write a how-to.. Want me to put it in the wiki? Do I need special
access?
"Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>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. <a
>href="http://www.openoffice.org/scdocs/ddSSHGuide.html";>http://www.openoffice.org/scdocs/ddSSHGuide.html</a> 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 :)
>--------------------------------
>
>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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