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On Wed, June 26, 2013 10:06, joost@××××××××.org wrote: |
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> Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> |
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>>>>>> I have several remote systems all pushing backups to my local |
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>>laptop |
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>>>>>> via rdiff-backup. Sometimes when on the road I find myself behind |
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>>a |
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>>>>>> router and the remote systems are unable to push. Is openvpn the |
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>>>>>> right solution here? Should I run a separate openvpn server on |
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>>each |
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>>>>>> system to be backed up with my laptop as the client? |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> If you can configure the router to forward the port used by the |
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>>OpenVPN |
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>>>>> server to your laptop, you can run the server on your laptop. |
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>>>> |
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>>>> I can't rely on being able to configure the router unfortunately, |
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>>but |
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>>>> I have to admit admin/admin does work a lot of the time. |
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>>>> |
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>>>>> But, as is more likely, when you can not configure the router, |
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>>running |
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>>>>> an |
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>>>>> OpenVPN server on (at least one) remote system and having your |
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>>laptop |
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>>>>> connect to that, you can have the other systems push to your laptop |
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>>over |
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>>>>> the VPN-link. |
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>>>>> Either directly (by establishing multiple VPN-links from your |
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>>laptop |
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>>>>> (one |
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>>>>> to each server) or via one of the remote systems. |
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>>>> |
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>>>> So I'm sure I understand, I should run the openvpn server on one of |
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>>my |
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>>>> remote systems and connect to that with each of the other remote |
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>>>> systems and the laptop. Then I can back up from any of the remote |
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>>>> systems to the laptop and all the laptop needs to be able to do is |
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>>>> make an outbound connection to the openvpn server? |
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>>> |
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>>> 2 options: |
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>>> 1) OpenVPN on every remote system and have laptop connect to all |
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>>remote |
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>>> systems for the backup |
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>>> |
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>>> 2) OpenVPN on 1 remote system (configured as router for the |
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>>VPN-links) |
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>>> - laptop and other remote systems connect to this remote system |
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>>> - backup are sent to laptop via this one remote system |
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>>#2 sounds cooler. Is that what you'd do? |
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>>- Grant |
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> |
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> Yes. |
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> With the VPN server being at my home network. |
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Need to add to this: |
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Option #2 has a few downsides: |
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1) The system running the VPN-server will have a lot more bandwidth |
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utilisation. (Backups for other systems will go through the link this one |
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has) |
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2) If that system is down, none of the other systems can be accessed via VPN. |
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For me the downsides don't count as the server can be accessed really |
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easily and I pay the same for my home internet connection when I use it or |
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don't use it. |
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