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Meel Me wrote:
> Is it possible to initiate a backup from the client machine, in a way
> that the clients connects to the backuppc server over the internet to
> start the backup? Instead of that the backuppc server makes a connection
> to the client?
> 
> If so, how?

As others have suggested, use some sort of tunnel or vpn so that the
laptop/client is on the "LAN" of the backuppc server... You should
probably add some firewall to the VPN (or port forwarding) so no
additional unexpected traffic is also passed over the connection.

You don't really need to initiate the connection from the client, just
allow the backuppc server to "see" the client, and set it to attempt
backups as frequently as required (every 10 minutes if you wanted to)...

Another option which I've used in the past is to configure port
forwarding (for a home user) on the router to the desktop, and then use
dynamic dns so the server knows where it is...

Hope that helps...

Regards,
Adam
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