Hi, I am using BackupPC on my laptop when it is connected to my local network at home. But, when I'm not at home (durin the work week), I don't know how to do. I'm not in some hotels, ... but in anot
Author: Vladislav Kurz <vladislav.kurz AT webstep DOT net>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 07:29:17 +0200
Hi Xuo, you could connect home using VPN. If configured properly, you may even get the same internal IP as when you are at home. Or, you could set up some internal DNS at home, that will return two A
Hi, Nobody knows how to answer my question ? Regards. xuo. Le 22/05/2017 à 19:44, Xuo a écrit : Hi, I am using BackupPC on my laptop when it is connected to my local network at home. But, when I'm no
Hi Xuo, There are many approaches: - Dynamic DNS - VPN - Reverse tunnel - Mirror files on server with rsync or unison, backup server instead - Use a cloud storage system, backup the cloud storage ins
Hi, If you're under Linux, use a VPN, such as: https://www.wireguard.io/ ; under m$, duno (& don't care very much.) This means you'll be obliged to reach your server through the VPN connection when i
Forget about that, I was thinking about a very different thing; my bad. JY -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashd
Hi, l Thank you for the replies. My pc is running Mageia5. I don't understand how a VPN connection could help solving my problem. Could you please explain more in details ? I understand the proposal
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 14:21:18 -0500
Some VPNs (OpenVPN for example) can be configured to have a fixed private IP address at the remote end, even though the connecting public addresses will vary with your location. If you set a point-to
Hi Xuo, A VPN means either a roadwarrior (your itinerant laptop) can connect and benefit from all machines of your LAN, or connect 2 LANs together (eg: enterprise branches.) This means, when you're c
Thank you for the explanations. I'm currently fighting setting up an openVpn connection. I'll have a close look at your proposal. Regards. Xuo. Le 29/05/2017 à 21:21, Les Mikesell a écrit : On Mon, M
Hi Les, Yup, I forgot this one ! Also note that using WireGuard instead of OpenVPN can give you an uncommon speed (that OVPN could just dream of): == EXCERPT FROM WG ML (20170513) Using the Infiniban
Author: Adam Goryachev <mailinglists AT websitemanagers.com DOT au>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 09:13:14 +1000
Hi, Hi Xuo, My pc is running Mageia5. I don't understand how a VPN connection could help solving my problem. Could you please explain more in details ? A VPN means either a roadwarrior (your itinera
Duno, Adam, I'm still in v.3 for production use and no time to explore v.4 (is it now rock-stable ?); this might change when Debian Stretch will become the new stable (around mid june ?), but I must
Hi, I'm using BackupPC 3.3.0 (got from the Web gui). Yes this feature would be really great (at least for me !!). Thank you to all for your help. I'm still fighting with the vpn connection. I'll tell
Author: Holger Parplies <wbppc AT parplies DOT de>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 21:18:12 +0200
Hi, Xuo wrote on 2017-05-30 19:03:03 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] How to backup a laptop over internet]: sorry, really busy, two quick remarks: Can't be too difficult to backport "this feature" (conte
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 14:38:46 -0500
On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 2:18 PM, Holger Parplies <wbppc AT parplies DOT de> wrote: If the VPN is configured as point-to-point with the other end on the backuppc server, routing would take care of its
Author: Holger Parplies <wbppc AT parplies DOT de>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 22:16:04 +0200
Hi, Les Mikesell wrote on 2017-05-30 14:38:46 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] How to backup a laptop over internet]: true enough. If that works for you, do it like that. Unfortunately, that is probably t
Hi, Thank you for the explanations, even though I think I've understood about 10% of what you wrote ;-) I understand it's not easy to implement each request any user can ask for. So don't worry. I've