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

[Martin Ebourne]

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. 
> 
> Is this possible in the current version? Is this planned for a future
> version?

You can do this using ssh port forwarding already, although that is
obviously a bit of work to set up.

There is no plan to implement this so far as I am aware of. Assuming
such a patch to do this didn't add too much complexity I might be
interested in it.

Cheers,

Martin.