[ale] Offsite backup

[robertheaven at earthlink.net (Robert Heaven)]

If the server in Buford has a public (Internet) IP address, couldn't you
just set up a cron job on the host in Lincolnton to do an scp copy at
regular intervals? (using public key login) With the host in Lincolnton
behind an SMC router, you'd have to set it up to pass the connection
through if that host will be the destination of the connection. (i.e.,
the Internet cannot route private IP addresses)


On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 20:56, Dylan Northrup wrote:

> A long time ago, (10.01.04), in a galaxy far, far away, Chris Fowler wrote:
> 
> :=I plan on installing a Linux machine at my father's house to be an
> :=offsite backup.  It will be sitting on a private lan behind a SMC
> :=wireless router.  The router is attached to Comcast.  I need some way of
> :=having this box report to me every day what its IP address is.
> :=
> :=One idea is to write a client/server app in perl that will simply send a
> :=hello UDP packet.  I can then parse the source address from that packet.
> :=Then the perl script will update my /etc/hosts file on my server in
> :=Buford.  He lives in Lincolnton, NC.
> 
> I'd use no-ip.com or some dynamic DNS setup.  I've been using no-ip.com for
> a while with no problems.  Sounds like it'd solve your problem.
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