From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Incorporating openvpn in backup scheme
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 09:56:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d395e8cf0e5108653f7b73308b1a5548.squirrel@www.antarean.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN0CFw1pRoHEcQevJeM6_d7vbpQ1XfABE_8oqRU1CcZDhLYP7A@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, June 26, 2013 09:54, Grant 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-26 7:56 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 [this message]
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
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