Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up over the Internet

[Msquared <1.s...@ms...>]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 01:40:11PM -0800, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote:

> Hi all!  I have a small LAN in Hillsboro, OR, which is connected to the
> Net though a (NAT) router provided by Verizon.  The IP on the Net side
> is variable.
> 
> My backup server is in Los Angeles, and has its own static IP.  It's a
> dedicated server, using FreeBSD, and I had no problem with backuppc
> setup on it.
> 
> How can I tell backuppc to access systems on my LAN?

You can achieve this with either NAT on your router combined with a
dynamic DNS service, or with OpenVPN.  I'd recommend OpenVPN.

Make sure that the hosts that are being backed up can only be accessed via
SSH key, not via password.  This will reduce the likelihood that someone
else may successfully log in to your systems from anywhere else.  (Also,
if you set up OpenVPN, and configure OpenSSH to only listen on the VPN
interface, that will help too.)

Regards, Msquared...