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On Wed, June 26, 2013 09:54, Grant wrote: |
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>>> I have several remote systems all pushing backups to my local laptop |
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>>> via rdiff-backup. Sometimes when on the road I find myself behind 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 each |
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>>> system to be backed up with my laptop as the client? |
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>> If you can configure the router to forward the port used by the OpenVPN |
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>> server to your laptop, you can run the server on your laptop. |
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> I can't rely on being able to configure the router unfortunately, but |
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> I have to admit admin/admin does work a lot of the time. |
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>> But, as is more likely, when you can not configure the router, running |
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>> an |
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>> OpenVPN server on (at least one) remote system and having your laptop |
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>> connect to that, you can have the other systems push to your laptop over |
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>> the VPN-link. |
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>> Either directly (by establishing multiple VPN-links from your laptop |
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>> (one |
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>> to each server) or via one of the remote systems. |
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> So I'm sure I understand, I should run the openvpn server on one of 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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2 options: |
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1) OpenVPN on every remote system and have laptop connect to all remote |
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systems for the backup |
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2) OpenVPN on 1 remote system (configured as router for the 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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