Hello, I stumbled across this beautiful bup gui some days ago. It would cool to have the ability to talk with a remote bup server. Currently I'm doing it manually with: bup save -r user@backupserver:/backup_path/.bup -n Name [Backup_Files] Best Regards, Green
Hello and thanks for taking the time to write down your thoughts! When I first started Kup I had planned to add this, but then I never needed it myself and nobody asked for it. Not until now. So I don't think it's very common to do this, but of course it could become more common if support is added to Kup... Anyway, even if uncommon, it could be worth adding since I think it should be pretty easy. The tricky part is just figuring out scheduling logic with regards to knowing if the backup destination is available or not. I think doing a ping test every five or ten minutes should be good enough. Oh, and another tricky part is maybe storing password. I have not looked at how to do that. KWallet probably. If any volunteer wants to work on this, get in contact and we can figure out the details for how it should work. For myself, I might work on it if I get inspired one day but I'm not promising anything.
Thank you for your time. I'm not that kind of person who is running with an external HDD to every machine for the backups. I'm using a RAID server with an additional "off-drive" :) "I think it should be pretty easy" was also my point of thinking, that's why I opened this. The main reason, why not much people want/use/know remote backups could be the lack of an graphical user interface for it. And also the documentation of bup isn't that great ':) I would love to see it become more common in Kup :) Well, I don't have the time to dig into this codebase. But I'm always open for conceptional questions. Ping test or even "try to connect on schedule time" should be more then good enough. What kind of password do you want to store? SSH login passwords? If so, the more common method is to simply exchange ssh public keys with thinks like "ssh-copy-id". It's a "do one time and forget". You never have to use a ssh password after this. To this point. Best regards, Green
I'm new here, but just thought I'd chime in to say I'd love to see this as well. I assumed this would "Just Work" since bup natively supports ssh. This would be very nice to have as little needs to be done to the remote server (most systems have SSH enabled by default) and, well, it could also easily allow backups to securely occur over public networks. I also concur with the original poster that ssh via keys is ideal/they way to go here. I'm really just commenting here as I'm very surprised to see no other commentary on this for years (maybe because people are using something else due to this missing functionality)? Cheers.
I'm trying to use versioned backups to my NAS via a CIFS mounted share but it seems BUP has problems with CIFS, e.g.: https://groups.google.com/g/bup-list/c/OTMFUxQH9IY/m/iy9XOYX8AQAJ https://groups.google.com/g/bup-list/c/V6yoCZG3ezE/m/F4ftGwO0BAAJ I'm also getting failures like these, so I also wish I could use kup to configure backups to a remote bup server via ssh