On Jan 29, 2010, at 2:37 AM, Rudi Ahlers rudiahlers@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Ross Walker rswwalker@gmail.com wrote: It's not easy backing up from behind the firewall.
What about using a service that will backup the mobile clients to an offsite repository that is accessible also from behind the firewall.
I was pitched something not too long ago about such a service, can't remember the name now unfortunately.
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. _______
Hi Ross,
Backing up behind the firewall is made easy by using an SSH tunnel :)
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.
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.
You might find this to be a Herculean task that even if implemented, impossible to support.
-Ross