On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:48:23 +0900
Dan Langille <dan AT langille DOT org> wrote:

> >> I also know about stunnel, but I'm hesitant to use it due to these
> >> reasons:
> >> 1) At least two stunnel instances will be required to be set up and
> >>   maintained.
> >> 2) Using stunnel involves unnecessary copying of (lots of) data.
> > 
> > You could overcome 1 by using a single ssh command with the -L and
> > -R options to make the tunnels.
> > 
> 
> My preference of late is to not use TLS, but to use a VPN.  I use
> OpenVPN on all my remote clients.

I'm a big fan of OpenVPN myself, and I use it to connect several branch
offices with the central one, but I'm inclined to think that to back up
a bunch of web sites (static content + dumps of several MySQL
databases) hosted on a VPS a full-blown VPN solution appears to be
slightly over the top.

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