Hi all.
Is anyone currently backing up over an ssh tunnel? and if so are you using
putty and some manual steps or have you perfected an automatic system?
I have an idea on it and I'll lay that out. I am not familiar with using
the direct cygwin rsync and rsyncd and have not yet installed and played
with them.
I want to do this all with a command line ssh client so that i can put it in
a script and put an icon on the startmenu to launch a backup remotely.
so the idea is, the script starts by initiating the ssh connection for the
tunnel and a specific port for each laptop so i would choose something like
2401 for the first laptop and 2402 for the second and so on.
the next step is initiating an additional ssh connection to run the remote
command for the backup, using the BackupPC_servermsg with the appropriate
flags for incremental backups.
and final killing the tunnel. in not sure if doing this on the client side
or on the server side would be best and just how to do it.
the client to be backed up would be configured with 'clientalias' equal to
127.0.0.1:2401 or the corrisponding port.
any thoughts on this? anyone doing something like this?
note: i would still be using deltacopy as my local rsyncd as it has a great
interface to work with and already runs as a daemon on windows startup with
no hassle. im sure the process of building the tunnel and initiating the
backup doesnt care about what rsyncd is used. i would also like to enable
compression on the ssh tunnel!
alternatively we could use putty and put a remote command to run in even if
that command is a script on the server side.
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