On Wed, June 26, 2013 09:54, Grant 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
