On 01/03/13 11:26, Zach Underwood wrote: > > For end user computers like laptop have the server start the backup is > wrong. The problem with that example you gave with openvpn and ssh > will not work because then the user would have to launch the VPN. Also > the server does not know when the client is online. The way to back is > laptop is a client on windows would start on boot. Then every one hour > or whatever the client would connect to the server over something like > SSL to run the backup > Actually, it does work well.
The client laptop boots up The VPN service starts (openvpn for example) The VPN connects to the backup server On bootup from windows, run a small script which simply 'clicks' the button to ask backuppc to attempt a backup immediately. Every hour, the backup server checks each client to see if it is connected and can do a backup if one hasn't completed recently. If you need to, add the various VSS scripts to be able to backup open files, etc... Regards, Adam -- Adam Goryachev Website Managers www.websitemanagers.com.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ 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/
