Hello Tyler,

Thanks for your quick reply!

You offer a good solution for people who connect to the Local Area Network one a month or so.
But I will never connect to the Local Area Network. And when I'm abroad for months, I'll (almost) always connect to the internet from behind a firewall. So the BackupPC server can never connect to my laptop, because:
* The BackupPC server doesn't know the ip-address of my laptop.
* Even if the BackupPC server would know my ip-address, then the request of the BackupPC server would be blocked by the firewall.

That's why I want to set up the connection (over the internet) from my laptop to the BackupPC server.

Do you know another solution?

Thanks,

Wim

--- On Thu, 11/12/09, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:

From: Tyler J. Wagner
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Initiate backup from client?
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Cc: "Meel Me" <meel2007 AT yahoo DOT com>
Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009, 8:37 AM

The "try every hour" method works just fine for me, even for users that only
come in once a month.

But if you really want to have the client initiate the backup, the easiest way
I can think of is to write a script that uses curl or wget to press the "start
incremental backup" button as the user:

curl -u user:password
http://bacckupserver/backuppc/index.cgi?host=hostname.example.com&hostIP=hostname.example.com&doit=1&action="">

Regards,
Tyler