Hi Dan,
thanks for dropping in SSH-tunnels (and myentunnel, didn't knew it
before). Of course your setup will be easier to setup than using a vpn.
While reading, I got the feeling that using a ssh tunnel could solve
another problem I've got with one client:
We habe a notebook that is sometimes in the office but most times
out-of-the-office.
The problem is that this machine get two different IP-adresses:
One when beeing in the office and the other when connected via VPN.
I was struggling how to backup this machine, since backuppc had to deal
with two different IP-adresses for one host.
Your idea and of this wiki should get the job done:
http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net/How+to+backup+through+an+SSH+tunnel
(just a short info for the mailinglist-archives)
- ph il
dan wrote:
> use ssh.
>
> You can put your backuppc server behind your firewall and access ssh on an
> alternate port, then NAT that port on your firewall to backuppc. then you
> can ssh from the client back to the backuppc box on the alternate port. if
> the client is on windows try myentunnel.
>
> Then on the backuppc box you can set up the client and use localhost, then
> change the rsync command for that client to use the alternate port. make
> sure to put the IP in client alias as nmblookup wont find it.
>
> Backuppc will think that the client is on the local network, and the client
> can automatically connect to backuppc.
>
> Additionally, you can enable compression on the ssh tunnel if the link is
> slow.
>
> I do this now, it works well.
>
> it also saves you all the effort of setting up a VPN tunnel.
>
> I do have some sites that are on a VPN and that works well also.
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