Hello Tyler,
Thanks for your quick reply!
You offer a good solution for people who connect to the Local Area Network one
a month or so.
But I will never connect to the Local Area Network. And when I'm abroad for
months, I'll (almost) always connect to the internet from behind a firewall. So
the BackupPC server can never connect to my laptop, because:
* The BackupPC server doesn't know the ip-address of my laptop.
* Even if the BackupPC server would know my ip-address, then the request of the
BackupPC server would be blocked by the firewall.
That's why I want to set up the connection (over the internet) from my laptop
to the BackupPC server.
Do you know another solution?
Thanks,
Wim
--- On Thu, 11/12/09, Tyler J. Wagner
wrote:
From: Tyler J. Wagner
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Initiate backup from client?
To: [email protected]
Cc: "Meel Me" <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009, 8:37 AM
The "try every hour" method works just fine for me, even for users that only
come in once a month.
But if you really want to have the client initiate the backup, the easiest way
I can think of is to write a script that uses curl or wget to press the "start
incremental backup" button as the user:
curl -u user:password
http://bacckupserver/backuppc/index.cgi?host=hostname.example.com&hostIP=hostname.example.com&doit=1&action=Start_Incr_Backup
Regards,
Tyler
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