Re: [BackupPC-users] LAN limitation

2008-01-30 Thread dan
just a little more detail. this can be done easily with putty as there is a "tunnels" section in the config that will let you choose the remote port to connect to and also the local port. you can put a script into putty to run your backup command, which is probably BackupPC_dump. you just have t

Re: [BackupPC-users] LAN limitation

2008-01-30 Thread dan
if the client initiates the connection and provides and ssh tunnel, backuppc can be setup to connect to 127.0.0.1 with the appropriate port for the tunnel, then the client can connect to the server and the server can backup the client over the ssh connection. On Jan 30, 2008 2:43 PM, Stephen Joyce

Re: [BackupPC-users] LAN limitation

2008-01-30 Thread Stephen Joyce
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Les Mikesell wrote: > Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: >> On 01/23 06:39 , Greg WhitleyMott wrote: >>> BackupPC has served well in a couple organizations i've setup. but now >>> i need to setup something that works across the internet, and it looks >>> like BackupPC can't do th

Re: [BackupPC-users] LAN limitation

2008-01-30 Thread Les Mikesell
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 01/23 06:39 , Greg WhitleyMott wrote: >> BackupPC has served well in a couple organizations i've setup. but now >> i need to setup something that works across the internet, and it looks >> like BackupPC can't do that. i'm sad, i'd much rather use BackupPC tha

Re: [BackupPC-users] LAN limitation

2008-01-30 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 01/23 06:39 , Greg WhitleyMott wrote: > BackupPC has served well in a couple organizations i've setup. but now > i need to setup something that works across the internet, and it looks > like BackupPC can't do that. i'm sad, i'd much rather use BackupPC than > rdiff-backup or safekeep or wha

[BackupPC-users] LAN limitation

2008-01-30 Thread Greg WhitleyMott
hi, BackupPC has served well in a couple organizations i've setup. but now i need to setup something that works across the internet, and it looks like BackupPC can't do that. i'm sad, i'd much rather use BackupPC than rdiff-backup or safekeep or whatever i'll have to use instead.. with grati