On 3/8/2011 2:24 PM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 15:09 -0500, Scott wrote:
>> How do we handle laptops or similar machines that are rarely (or
>> never) connected to the LAN or anywhere that I can open ports?   Is it
>> possible to install something on the client laptop/machine to make an
>> outgoing connection to the server and initiate a backup, like an
>> outgoing rsync to the server?
>
> Yes. You could have the client do this:
>
> ssh -R 20001:localhost:22 user@backupserver
>
> Then configure the client to use localhost port 20001:
>
> $Conf{ClientNameAlias} = 'localhost';
> $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -p 20001 ...';
> $Conf{PingCmd} = 'tcpping -p 20001 $host';
>
> You'll need to install some tcpping (there are many) solution, or
> disable ping.


Or, if you want generic access you could install a VPN like openvpn - 
which could be restricted to the backuppc server or routed to everything 
on the LAN.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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