public inbox for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: joost@antarean.org
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Incorporating openvpn in backup scheme
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 10:06:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <af82930c-9716-4668-a55f-cc5a21089b12@email.android.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN0CFw3VTxB54vR2M_2tQLvehf3rtrVzVEj31L4rdguET0fAkQ@mail.gmail.com>

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1994 bytes --]

Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
-- 
Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 3009 bytes --]

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-26  8:06 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 [this message]
2013-06-26  8:12           ` J. Roeleveld
2013-06-27  6:43             ` Grant

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=af82930c-9716-4668-a55f-cc5a21089b12@email.android.com \
    --to=joost@antarean.org \
    --cc=gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox