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 B7DEC1381F3 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 08:02:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 819D5E09C2; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 08:02:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f172.google.com (mail-we0-f172.google.com [74.125.82.172]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1FBA1E0818 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 08:02:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f172.google.com with SMTP id q56so9973937wes.17 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 01:02:07 -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=wcplxnn1jI9Gx3lPPBQp444tgoMQXDXN3DPWUWHvGJc=; b=cCsirc2wvl6sF0FdAJpytFzqw0ElwfL3DCuy2DO6+SZ4SppoI0JExgR/bor6A2mBWT KbqSPZErEgRvz5tK6WM+FSgeWQmdVWYQViCVd4Tr8lR8fQhtGoUbfPm72AUgUysO2LFp FV2DuUZ6UnPuyttbO+6o2a7Zrczb5LeMGZY7/h9nGtH0cOfCnmNnUCr8Fre5hXhEIloh 1HEsg1X9XuXJVN1pMgsUvkgEwPBeApm/TpUhef8hZ1qCuBM2B0IKuyJEKWvum5x5JTkv WImTCydIMHsvaFb/EZuUmlEfVvjQM8jR1WpVLj+gLi8UR4/cM0Rgt2eNId7QmdJINCdv GD7A== 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 q18mr1717227wib.50.1372233727737; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 01:02:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.194.46.99 with HTTP; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 01:02:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <8212218a5d006a714030e99a3fe5ebab.squirrel@www.antarean.org> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 01:02:07 -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: 1b976751-3d98-4389-a7c0-080d51d98a1d X-Archives-Hash: 8dfcdf43d27c3ded71ee55f80e8c1e47 >>>> 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