On Jan 29, 2010, at 2:37 AM, Rudi Ahlers <rudiahlers at gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Ross Walker <rswwalker at 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100129/a46c8b6c/attachment-0005.html>