[Box Backup-dev] Using box-backup without daemon, via a remote shell (like rsync)

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Martin,

On Tue, 26 Dec 2006, Martin Ebourne wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 14:27 +0200, Andrei wrote:
>> I think it would be useful if the box-backup client could connect to a
>> linux server via a standard ssh connection on port 22 (using linux
>> username and password), and then communicate with the box-backup
>> server via pipes (so no network connections will be involved).
>>
>> This would help using box-backup on servers that do not allow
>> listening daemons or persistent processes but do allow connecting
>> through ssh. The box-backup server maintenance could be executed
>> manually through a cronjob.
>
> You can do this using ssh port forwarding already, although that is 
> obviously a bit of work to set up.

Unfortunately that doesn't work if daemons are not allowed on the remote 
host. Although you could start the store daemon when the backup starts and 
kill it afterwards.

Another way might be to mount the remote storage box using sshfs on the 
client, and run the store and backup daemons on the client.

Cheers, Chris.
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