Jeremy H. Griffith wrote:
> Hi all!  I have a small LAN in Hillsboro, OR, which is
> connected to the Net though a (NAT) router provided
> by Verizon.  The IP on the Net side is variable.
> 
> My backup server is in Los Angeles, and has its own
> static IP.  It's a dedicated server, using FreeBSD,
> and I had no problem with backuppc setup on it.
> 
> How can I tell backuppc to access systems on my LAN?
> I'd like to back up two hosts on it, one Vista Home
> (my wife's), the other Win2K Pro.  I'll probably add 
> a Linux one for development soon too.
> 
> I suspect I need to set up a VPN; if so, what VPN
> software do you recommend?

Openvpn is easy to set up, doesn't mind NAT and can connect as long as 
one side has a static IP.  The catch is that you will either need to run 
it on each machine separately or arrange routes through one machine that 
provides the tunnel.

> Or can the LAN systems "log in" to backuppc over the
> Net to start the process?

You can start an ssh from the client that does port-forwarding for backuppc.

> Or is this beyond backuppc's area?  In that case,
> what other software might do the job?

Backuppc can't manage it since the connection must originate the other 
direction, but it can run through normally-routed vpn tunnels, or port 
forwarding.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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