Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Incorporating openvpn in backup scheme

[Grant]

>>>> I have several remote systems all pushing backups to my local laptop
>>>> via rdiff-backup.  Sometimes when on the road I find myself behind a
>>>> router and the remote systems are unable to push.  Is openvpn the
>>>> right solution here?  Should I run a separate openvpn server on each
>>>> system to be backed up with my laptop as the client?
>>>
>>> If you can configure the router to forward the port used by the OpenVPN
>>> server to your laptop, you can run the server on your laptop.
>>
>> I can't rely on being able to configure the router unfortunately, but
>> I have to admit admin/admin does work a lot of the time.
>>
>>> But, as is more likely, when you can not configure the router, running
>>> an
>>> OpenVPN server on (at least one) remote system and having your laptop
>>> connect to that, you can have the other systems push to your laptop over
>>> the VPN-link.
>>> Either directly (by establishing multiple VPN-links from your laptop
>>> (one
>>> to each server) or via one of the remote systems.
>>
>> So I'm sure I understand, I should run the openvpn server on one of my
>> remote systems and connect to that with each of the other remote
>> systems and the laptop.  Then I can back up from any of the remote
>> systems to the laptop and all the laptop needs to be able to do is
>> make an outbound connection to the openvpn server?
>
> 2 options:
> 1) OpenVPN on every remote system and have laptop connect to all remote
> systems for the backup
>
> 2) OpenVPN on 1 remote system (configured as router for the VPN-links)
>  - laptop and other remote systems connect to this remote system
>  - backup are sent to laptop via this one remote system

#2 sounds cooler.  Is that what you'd do?

- Grant