<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">On Jan 29, 2010, at 2:37 AM, Rudi Ahlers <<a href="mailto:rudiahlers@gmail.com">rudiahlers@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Ross Walker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rswwalker@gmail.com"><a href="mailto:rswwalker@gmail.com">rswwalker@gmail.com</a></a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>It's not easy backing up from behind the firewall.</div><div><br></div><div>What about using a service that will backup the mobile clients to an offsite repository that is accessible also from behind the firewall.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I was pitched something not too long ago about such a service, can't remember the name now unfortunately.</div><div><br></div><div>Otherwise you could look into some sort of WebDAV + Fuse setup or some specialized file system that is cached on the client but then syncs with the server in the background when available, then all your backups are local.</div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">_______</span><br></div></div><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hi Ross, </div><div><br></div><div>Backing up behind the firewall is made easy by using an SSH tunnel :)</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Communications is easy, but that's not what I'm talking about, I'm talking the management and coordination of backups from behind the firewall.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div>We already have an offsite backup facility with a 3rd party, nbut I need more control over the backups, and want to setup an inhouse backup server which where all the client's account (this is hosting accounts & VPS's) be backed up to, then this server will do an rsync with all the data to the offsite backup server. </div></div></div></blockquote><br><div>You might find this to be a Herculean task that even if implemented, impossible to support.</div><div><br></div><div>-Ross</div><div><br></div></body></html>