>>>> 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
