Howto is complete, at:
http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net/How+to+backup+through+an+SSH+tunnel
I used PuTTY to create the tunnel in my instructions, but cygwin's SSH
would work just as well..
The most difficult part was figuring out how to ping the client
appropriately, since a normal ping won't work to a non-pinging client.
"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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