On 27.07.2017 at 18:19 wrote PenguinWhispererThe: > Hi all, > > I've come by Bareos by accident after being a longtime Bacula user. > I have local and remote servers (by using some ssh port forwarding fiddling) > and some local "static" machines now in my backup and it's working great. > > Now I'd like to expand this to have laptops backed up as well. These laptops > are on the road so the IPs/hostnames can't be put in the config as they're > changing. > > I was wondering if there's a possibility to backup these clients as well. > I understand I can open up some firewall ports to the internet to let > filedaemons connect to my server. However the server initiates some > connections as well IIRC and that would require the client side to change the > firewall to allow these (for example the router where this laptop is > connected to). > > Is this secure? And I mainly mean: is it a good idea to have these ports open > to the internet? Perhaps someone can bruteforce it or the "protection" is not > that strong? > > Another way would be to install OpenVPN and let each client setup a VPN. > While this is certainly possible it's yet another tool that has to be > installed + the openvpn tunnel should be up to make the backup work. > > Any remarks or thoughts are welcome.
I guess, http://doc.bareos.org/master/html/bareos-manual-main-reference.html#ClientInitiatedConnection is what you are looking for. Also take a look at "When Client is present, trigger backup" in https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/backup_dr_bareos_scripting/attachments/slides/1445/export/events/attachments/backup_dr_bareos_scripting/slides/1445/Interacting_with_Bareos.pdf about how to trigger backups only when the client is present. regards, Jörg -- Jörg Steffens [email protected] Bareos GmbH & Co. KG Phone: +49 221 630693-91 http://www.bareos.com Fax: +49 221 630693-10 Sitz der Gesellschaft: Köln | Amtsgericht Köln: HRA 29646 Komplementär: Bareos Verwaltungs-GmbH Geschäftsführer: S. Dühr, M. Außendorf, Jörg Steffens, P. Storz -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
