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Hello all,
I've just set up Backuppc as a backup solution for my server, and it
looks promising. I was hoping to also use it as a solution for our
laptops. The problem with them is, that they are truly mobile: our
consultants work at several locations, different networks, sometimes
behind NATs etc. Hence backing up such a laptop would only be possible
if it was a laptop who initiated a backup session to a server.

Is such scenario possible?

Backup would take place over a WAN, so using SMB is rather not
possible. I'd go with ssh or rsyncd. I'm guessing we'd need some sort
of a client software for this. Has anyone tried that?

It should be a solution that would be configured by an administrator
and then used by an end user in a simple manner.

Rgds, KT

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Dnia 6 listopada 2011 Doug Lytle napisal(a):

Krzysztof Trybowski wrote:
Backup would take place over a WAN, so using SMB is rather not
possible. I'd go with ssh or rsyncd. I'm guessing we'd need some sort
of a client software for this. Has anyone tried that?

We use OpenVPN for the connections, Rsync (DeltaCopy) and set the laptop
users backup to disable. Then we give the user a profile in BackupPC
and a link to their backup entry.

They start the VPN up, and go kick off a manual backup (When they
remember to).

Doug

Um, allright, that would be acceptable (although I'm worried about
performance of VPN connection). One thing that I'd like, it should be
a one action thing: start VPN connection and queue a backup in one click.
Plus a progress bar would be nice, so that a user knows when the
backup is done.


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This is off the BackupPC topic; but for mobile computing/push-based backups,
we've been using Crashplan Pro (http://www.crashplan.com/). It's commercial,
but it's pretty good. It works much like BackupPC (I think it may use
DeltaSync on the back end) but is push-driven and has a nice GUI interface
the user can configure to throttle bandwidth when the computer is busy, etc.

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