Re: [BackupPC-users] backup clients from anywhere

On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Löffler Thomas J. <tjl AT erdw.ethz DOT ch> 
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> laptops are traveling through the world changing the (and often more than
> one) ip address. I’ve setup scripts (for os x, w7) to collect these data and
> push it into a db. Periodically, the /etc/hosts file on the backuppc server
> is updated with these data.
>
>
>
> Now, nmblookup doesn’t use the /etc/hosts file, but $Conf{ClientNameAlias} =
> ‘xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx’ in the /etc/backuppc/CLIENTS.pl file which can be updated
> periodically as well to the latest data.
>
>
>
> Are there other/simpler possibilities already implemented for clients to be
> able to backup from “foreign” networks? Is there any possibility to deal
> with the multiple ip addresses a client can have?

If the client pc users logs into the web interface to start the
backup, it will find the address.  But usually the bigger problem is
that these roaming connections are going through a NAT router or
firewall so the server can't connect back anyway.   One solution is to
run a VPN service like openvpn on the client and server and configure
it to assign a known private address to each client when it is
connected - and configure backuppc to use that address (via
ClientAliasName).

-- 
   Les Mikesell
      lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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