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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 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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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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- Grant |
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