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From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Incorporating openvpn in backup scheme
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 23:43:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN0CFw3KzWVAWpAUCC2OEeVM5gbHYypZ_sAKtEPqF8FNhQQ5GQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <df94a09d961f7014f60d0af4a61bb067.squirrel@www.antarean.org>

>>>>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>> 2 options:
>>>> 1) OpenVPN on every remote system and have laptop connect to all
>>>remote
>>>> systems for the backup
>>>>
>>>> 2) OpenVPN on 1 remote system (configured as router for the
>>>VPN-links)
>>>>  - laptop and other remote systems connect to this remote system
>>>>  - backup are sent to laptop via this one remote system
>>>
>>>#2 sounds cooler.  Is that what you'd do?
>>>
>>>- Grant
>>
>> Yes.
>> With the VPN server being at my home network.
>
> Need to add to this:
> Option #2 has a few downsides:
> 1) The system running the VPN-server will have a lot more bandwidth
> utilisation. (Backups for other systems will go through the link this one
> has)
> 2) If that system is down, none of the other systems can be accessed via VPN.
>
> For me the downsides don't count as the server can be accessed really
> easily and I pay the same for my home internet connection when I use it or
> don't use it.

Convinced.  Thank you for your help.

- Grant


      reply	other threads:[~2013-06-27  6:43 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
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 [this message]

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