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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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>>> |
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>>>#2 sounds cooler. Is that what you'd do? |
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>>> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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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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Convinced. Thank you for your help. |
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- Grant |