Hmm.. Sounds like it might work. Please send me an update when you get it
working!
To get ssh to sign in without a password is no problem. I googled and
quickly found the following page but there are probably hundreds with the
instructions on how to do it:
http://www.mines.edu/~gmurray/HowTo/ss
no, the backuppc server wont have any idea where to find the client. the
client needs to make the connection.
as for the login session:
log in as a specific remote backup user. lets say reback. reback has no
permissions on the system except and entry in the sudoers file.
build the entire backup
A question: are you able to initiate the tunnel from the BackupPC server?
It will be more easily to do that way, I think.
I ask because with the example I gave in the wiki, I am unable to initiate
the tunnel from the client because of the firewall on the client. The
technique would be different,
Hi all.
Is anyone currently backing up over an ssh tunnel? and if so are you using
putty and some manual steps or have you perfected an automatic system?
I have an idea on it and I'll lay that out. I am not familiar with using
the direct cygwin rsync and rsyncd and have not yet installed and pl
