From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@orlitzky.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Incorporating openvpn in backup scheme
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 01:52:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51CA81B1.2090708@orlitzky.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8212218a5d006a714030e99a3fe5ebab.squirrel@www.antarean.org>
On 06/25/13 03:06, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Tue, June 25, 2013 09:02, Grant wrote:
>> I have several remote systems all pushing backups to my local laptop
>> via rdiff-backup. Sometimes when on the road I find myself behind a
>> router and the remote systems are unable to push. Is openvpn the
>> right solution here? Should I run a separate openvpn server on each
>> system to be backed up with my laptop as the client?
>
> If you can configure the router to forward the port used by the OpenVPN
> server to your laptop, you can run the server on your laptop.
>
> But, as is more likely, when you can not configure the router, running an
> OpenVPN server on (at least one) remote system and having your laptop
> connect to that, you can have the other systems push to your laptop over
> the VPN-link.
> Either directly (by establishing multiple VPN-links from your laptop (one
> to each server) or via one of the remote systems.
>
Many hotels, airports, universities, etc. will also block everything
except TCP port 80/443 outgoing. I suggest running OpenVPN on tcp/443.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-26 5:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-25 7:02 [gentoo-user] {OT} Incorporating openvpn in backup scheme Grant
2013-06-25 7:06 ` J. Roeleveld
2013-06-26 5:52 ` Michael Orlitzky [this message]
2013-06-26 7:54 ` Grant
2013-06-26 7:56 ` J. Roeleveld
2013-06-26 8:02 ` Grant
2013-06-26 8:06 ` joost
2013-06-26 8:12 ` J. Roeleveld
2013-06-27 6:43 ` Grant
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