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

Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:

>>>>> 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

Yes.
With the VPN server being at my home network.
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