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On 06/25/13 03:06, J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> On Tue, June 25, 2013 09:02, 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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> But, as is more likely, when you can not configure the router, running 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 (one |
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> to each server) or via one of the remote systems. |
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Many hotels, airports, universities, etc. will also block everything |
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except TCP port 80/443 outgoing. I suggest running OpenVPN on tcp/443. |