Hi Dan, thanks for dropping in SSH-tunnels (and myentunnel, didn't knew it before). Of course your setup will be easier to setup than using a vpn.
While reading, I got the feeling that using a ssh tunnel could solve another problem I've got with one client: We habe a notebook that is sometimes in the office but most times out-of-the-office. The problem is that this machine get two different IP-adresses: One when beeing in the office and the other when connected via VPN. I was struggling how to backup this machine, since backuppc had to deal with two different IP-adresses for one host. Your idea and of this wiki should get the job done: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net/How+to+backup+through+an+SSH+tunnel (just a short info for the mailinglist-archives) - ph il dan wrote: > use ssh. > > You can put your backuppc server behind your firewall and access ssh on an > alternate port, then NAT that port on your firewall to backuppc. then you > can ssh from the client back to the backuppc box on the alternate port. if > the client is on windows try myentunnel. > > Then on the backuppc box you can set up the client and use localhost, then > change the rsync command for that client to use the alternate port. make > sure to put the IP in client alias as nmblookup wont find it. > > Backuppc will think that the client is on the local network, and the client > can automatically connect to backuppc. > > Additionally, you can enable compression on the ssh tunnel if the link is > slow. > > I do this now, it works well. > > it also saves you all the effort of setting up a VPN tunnel. > > I do have some sites that are on a VPN and that works well also. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
