A small shell script that tunnels the AFP port of your disk station (and propably every other NAS with AFP and SSH services running) over ssh to your client computer. So you can access your files and do Time Machine backups on a secured SSH connection via internet, e.g Ubuntu You can access the remote AFP server via port on your local machine. After running the script, the host should show up in Finder on Mac OS.
Usage
You run the script via cron to ensure that the connection still exists. If the tunnel is broken, it will be established again. To kill the tunnel you can use '-k' or '--kill' as command line parameters:
timemaschine-ssh.sh -k
or just use '-h' for getting a list of all options
timemaschine-ssh.sh -h
So basic four steps are needed
- Run the script
timemaschine-ssh.sh - go to the share in find and login, save the login details in keychain
- open the desired share
- now open TimeMachine and select you're share
Changelog
2014-11-23
- Improved documentation
2014-10-09
- Added quiet mode
- Refactoring
- Removed config file support
2012-07-03
- Added support for config files
- Added support for ssh keys
2011-12-27
- Added a help screen (-h or --help)
2011-12-26
- Fixed some small bugs with background processes regarding hangups of the script
- Added verbose mode (-v or --verbose)
- Implemented a cleaner way to kill the processes
2011-12-24
- Initial release