On 6 November 2011 14:15, Doug Lytle <[email protected]> wrote: > Krzysztof Trybowski wrote: >> Backup would take place over a WAN, so using SMB is rather not >> possible. I'd go with ssh or rsyncd. I'm guessing we'd need some sort >> of a client software for this. Has anyone tried that? > We use OpenVPN for the connections, Rsync (DeltaCopy) and set the laptop > users backup to disable. Then we give the user a profile in BackupPC > and a link to their backup entry.
I have mobile users that are often in the office, using Windows laptops with cwRsync. Everything works great if they bother to plug into the LAN, but usually they just use WiFi which is on a different subnet to the BackupPC server, so the server doesn't know the client is available. Considering that they don't even bother to plug in their network cable, they're going to go to the web UI to request a backup, it needs to be automated. Is there some way that I could run a scheduled job on the clients that would just tell the server "I'm here, here's my IP address, back me up"? Thanks, Randy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
