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

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Adam Goryachev
Website Managers
www.websitemanagers.com.au


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