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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



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On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Krzysztof Trybowski
<trybowski < at > aeropolis.pl> wrote:

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).


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.

You'll have to write your own wrapper for that, and backuppc doesn't
really have a concept of how much more it has to do until it is
finished. Looking at the host summary page in a web browser is about
the best you can do.

But, as long as you run openvpn over UDP there's not much overhead.
In fact if you enable lzo compression it is probably an overall win.

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On 6 November 2011 14:15, Doug Lytle <support < at > drdos.info> wrote:
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.

I have mobile users that are often in the office, using Windows
laptops with cwRsync. Everything works great if they bother to plug
into the LAN, but usually they just use WiFi which is on a different
subnet to the BackupPC server, so the server doesn't know the client
is available.

Considering that they don't even bother to plug in their network
cable, they're going to go to the web UI to request a backup, it needs
to be automated. Is there some way that I could run a scheduled job
on the clients that would just tell the server "I'm here, here's my IP
address, back me up"?

Thanks,

Randy

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I said:
Considering that they don't even bother to plug in their network
cable, they're going to go to the web UI to request a backup

I meant:
they're *not* going to go to the web UI

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On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Randy Orrison <randy.orrison < at > gmail.com> wrote:
I said:
Considering that they don't even bother to plug in their network
cable, they're going to go to the web UI to request a backup

I meant:
they're *not* going to go to the web UI


You could set up a VPN (like openvpn) that connects to the backuppc
server anytime it can with a known private address, and treat them
just like they are on the LAN. And when the random backup activity
bothers them, perhaps you will be able to get them to control it with
the web UI or make a push-button icon that hits the web interface with
wget or curl for them. If they are on private LANs in different
locations you would have a choice of connecting/routing the LANs
through the VPN (although that can be tricky if the IP ranges
conflict) or running openvpn on each target computer, tunneling
directly to the backuppc server.

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