From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 950FE1381F3 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 07:54:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E20DE09CD; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 07:54:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f181.google.com (mail-wi0-f181.google.com [209.85.212.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4A8F7E080A for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 07:54:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f181.google.com with SMTP id hq4so1562659wib.14 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 00:54:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=qjH5/bESr0W9tBxO846VJg/3Qyc2tYsd3qhDvua1O/s=; b=XF+1lmjcKDehFz6T+LFaVhvkP/z6I4IBQfN6a1NRX0ER/s1V19Lgu7iq0K//1zQDMm 1PPUUrpvJtggZNOGdQ/j6ilrByx+q6HiGLJVoK0FBwYv13F+s7KCoS8lwQuzJGgsu9BU 0kseuafVYQE9jUYR6r6HaXvsN6LDoWus7nZDDrT5E9U+wCN+EPSD/q+ElLprT/oJFAEc Llx557M3lQGm9Zg93G7qcCpzdODVzXnN01jQWjvFZtlZQWBSP0pPtw3cDhisStyk2gs4 b1y4vGmO058YG1xoUKtnxJI8UxuMn2/jTfePOeOPs3ByZKgNKuF24YaM1zaQD3ckcmwE SBzw== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.11.146 with SMTP id q18mr1697525wib.50.1372233263019; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 00:54:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.194.46.99 with HTTP; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 00:54:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <8212218a5d006a714030e99a3fe5ebab.squirrel@www.antarean.org> References: <8212218a5d006a714030e99a3fe5ebab.squirrel@www.antarean.org> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 00:54:22 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Incorporating openvpn in backup scheme From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: acabbc99-57ab-4d47-8ea1-fc6b432a116f X-Archives-Hash: 4ac72eb26173872f68070d6dec3bd258 >> 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. I can't rely on being able to configure the router unfortunately, but I have to admit admin/admin does work a lot of the time. > 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. So I'm sure I understand, I should run the openvpn server on one of my remote systems and connect to that with each of the other remote systems and the laptop. Then I can back up from any of the remote systems to the laptop and all the laptop needs to be able to do is make an outbound connection to the openvpn server? - Grant