A question: are you able to initiate the tunnel from the BackupPC server?
It will be more easily to do that way, I think.
I ask because with the example I gave in the wiki, I am unable to initiate
the tunnel from the client because of the firewall on the client. The
technique would be different, depending on your answer.
"dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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
><a href="http://127.0.0.1:2401";>127.0.0.1:2401</a> 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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