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 01:02:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN0CFw3VTxB54vR2M_2tQLvehf3rtrVzVEj31L4rdguET0fAkQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d395e8cf0e5108653f7b73308b1a5548.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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-26 8:02 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 [this message]
2013-06-26 8:06 ` joost
2013-06-26 8:12 ` J. Roeleveld
2013-06-27 6:43 ` Grant
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