>> 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? - Grant
