On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 15:09 -0500, Scott wrote:
> How do we handle laptops or similar machines that are rarely (or
> never) connected to the LAN or anywhere that I can open ports?   Is it
> possible to install something on the client laptop/machine to make an
> outgoing connection to the server and initiate a backup, like an
> outgoing rsync to the server?

Yes. You could have the client do this:

ssh -R 20001:localhost:22 user@backupserver

Then configure the client to use localhost port 20001:

$Conf{ClientNameAlias} = 'localhost';
$Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -p 20001 ...';
$Conf{PingCmd} = 'tcpping -p 20001 $host';

You'll need to install some tcpping (there are many) solution, or
disable ping.

Regards,
Tyler

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