Re: [BackupPC-users] Remote Mgmt

Steve Willoughby <steve AT alchemy DOT com> wrote on 02/17/2012 04:02:07 PM: > If you really need this, perhaps a better thing to do would be to SSH in > to the host and set up a tunnel over that SSH connection to reach your > BackupPC server.

I'll third this. If you're asking this question, you probably do not have experience with Apache, and I would bet lots of money that you have *not* also set up HTTPS, properly-created certificates and the rest. A public-facing server in that case is a *very* bad idea.

How many people need to access this server from outside the office? A handful? Use SSH tunnelling. If you're Windows-only and not familiar with this: http://oldsite.precedence.co.uk/nc/putty.html

Then, all you have to do is port-forward 22 to your BackupPC server (or use another port, if you wanted), and then use PuTTY to tunnel.

Tim Massey


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