Hi Timothy,
Still off-topic, I'm afraid. You could look into CrashPlan; it's a
commercial backup service, but the software is free and available for
most platforms. It does push backup over the internet either to their
cloud storage (that's not free) or to a PC of your own (which is free).
I'm not sure of the licensing situation for commercial use of the free
software (I use it for personal use, and backuppc for work).
Randy
On 08/06/11 22:02, Timothy J Massey wrote:
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
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