Grant <emailgr...@gmail.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. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
