[Box Backup] Client and Server on same machine

Ben Summers boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Thu, 9 Sep 2004 08:54:58 +0100


On 9 Sep 2004, at 03:53, Andrew Farago wrote:

> On Wednesday 08 September 2004 20:54, Ben Summers wrote:
>>
>> You can look up the exception codes in the ExceptionCodes.txt file
>> generated in the root of the distribution when you build it.
>>
>> Ben
>>
> How works the BoxBackup protocol? Maybe it is a networking problem in 
> real.
> Can i keep a backup client behind a NAT firewall?

The backup protocol involves the client opening a simple TCP/IP 
connection to the server, which is encrypted using TLS (using OpenSSL). 
This is completely compatible with NAT firewalls, in fact, most of the 
clients I run are behind such things.

Ben