This first raises a few key questions. What operating systems do these users
run? How regularly or irregularly are your users connected? How do they
connect—cabled Internet, cellular broadband, wireless connection and cabled
Internet? How often do they come into the office if at all?
I used BackupPC for my users who come in and out of the office now and then.
One is as rare as once a week. It seems to discover them on the network
pretty quickly.
If your users have Windows, you might try Cobain backup. It definitely has a
backup to FTP option. The only problem is that your backups will have to be
scheduled.
Chris Baker
[email protected]
512-425-2006
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*From:* Timothy J Massey [mailto:[email protected]]
*Sent:* Wednesday, June 08, 2011 4:02 PM
*To:* General list for user discussion,questions and support
*Subject:* [BackupPC-users] OT: Thoughts for "push" backup
Hello!
I've been asked to consider implementing a push-style backup for roaming
users: users that are out of the office and irregularly connected to the
Internet. We would like to be able to back up the profile of such users.
We would like to avoid cloud-based services due to privacy concerns: we
would like to control the data. That eliminates things such as Carbonite.
I have thought about dirty hacks such as scripting an rsync on the client to
a centralized rsync server (and then using BackupPC to, say, hourly back up
that server), but it's a pretty dirty hack... I'm hoping for something a
little more... polished (at least). We would also like to avoid having to
establish a VPN for such a solution.
Does anyone have any experience with such a tool where computers in random
locations can connect to an in-house server to back up files automatically?
Thank you , and I apologize for the OT nature, but I figure my fellow
BackupPC users might have some suggestions! (At least I'm not asking how to
back up the pool... ;) )
Timothy J. Massey
*Out of the Box Solutions, Inc.* *
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