[Cialug] rsnapshot replication

[Scott Yates]

X-windows or any GUI is not required on the headless server at all.  It is
just a protocol level connection.  If you have a windows, mac or linux
graphical machine that can ssh into the headless server where crashplan is
running, you can forward the port you need back to your graphical machine
that is running the crashplan java graphical client (same code actually as
is on the server).

Storage is managed from the application.  LOGIN is managed via the cloud.


On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 10:27 AM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Mar 2016, Scott Yates wrote:
>
> > You use the gui on the client machine to connect via ssh with port
> mapping
> > to the headless server.  It is not a complex as it sounds actually, but
> is
> > not trivial either.
> >
> We never install GUIs on the "client" machine, .. even if it were there,
> there is no simple way to access remotely - it would require running the X
> app over SSH, and such a WAN connection seldom provides reasonable
> performance even if it could be accomplished. (The only other option would
> be somehthing like TeamViewer to manage the backup on the remote server,
> but that is at least three layers of complexity that does not make sense.)
>
> > Restoring or backing up does require a cloud LOGIN, but not cloud
> storage.
> >
> So, .. your own storage is managed from the CrashPlan Cloud?
>
> > Side note, you can manage and store your own keyfile for backup so that
> "in
> > theory" only you can see your data.  Since it is not open source, you
> don't
> > know for certain though.
> >
> While I can see CrashPlan being a good solution for a workstation, .. I
> just can't see it working well for a normal server [in our case - minimal
> install, no X-Windows, remotely managed via ssh].
>
> Thanks for the info, however, .. it does sound like a decent system for
> workstations or servers that can be managed locally.
>
>         Lee
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