Hi Ged, A frontend, in my description, is a server with one network interface connected to internet and one network interface connected to the internal network. All acces to internal servers from clients outside the entity require to log first on the frontend (only ssh is allowed) and then issue a ssh command or a netcat command to reach an internal server.
The main security management is done on this frontend and the security level between internal servers is a little bit lower to allow more flexibility to the users. The remote entity where the server with te data I try to backup is located use this architecture. My lab uses the same one. The frontend is behind a firewall and ssh connection is only allowed from outside to this frontend. Patrick Le 22/06/2019 à 14:57, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users a écrit : > Hi there, > > On Sat, 22 Jun 2019, Carl Soderstrom wrote: >> On 06/21 06:07 , Patrick B?gou wrote: >>> >>> I'm using BackupPC 3 for many local PCs. I would like now to backup >>> some >>> data from a remote server, located in another entity and where I >>> need to >>> go throught a frontend >>> >>> BackupPC <<------->> Frontend <<--------->> serveur-with-data >> >> The way I solved this, after a couple of years of experimentation is >> with >> 'autossh'. ... > > Over almost two decades I've done similar things many times and in > different ways using OpenVPN to create encrypted tunnels. It isn't > clear to me what the OP's 'Frontend' might be, and what effects that > may have on use of things like SSH/VPN tunnels. If it's relevant he > might want to elaborate. > _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
