Les Mikesell wrote at about 10:09:41 -0600 on Tuesday, December 14, 2010:
 > On 12/14/2010 9:39 AM, gregwm wrote:
 > > "pull" is fine for most circumstances, but i have an instance where
 > > "push" is the only option.  assuming i don't run nightly or trashclean
 > > remotely, any danger in mounting the backuppc volume via sshfs and
 > > running BackupPC_dump?
 > 
 > That doesn't sound even close to being reasonable.  How about running 
 > ssh with a port-forwarding tunnel that the server can use after the 
 > client originates the connection?  Or perhaps a VPN like openvpn that 
 > you connect as needed?
 > 

Last time I checked 'sshfs' won't even work because it doesn't handle
hard links properly. It only 'imitates' a filesystem - it doesn't
provide all the capabilities of a file system necessary for backuppc
to work (unless sshfs has changed in the past year or two)

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