From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 19 16:35:07 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 168A516A421 for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 16:35:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from svein-freebsd-questions@theloosingend.net) Received: from fri.itea.ntnu.no (fri.itea.ntnu.no [129.241.7.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E19243D6B for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 16:35:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from svein-freebsd-questions@theloosingend.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fri.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 709248113 for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 17:34:58 +0100 (CET) Received: from maren.thelosingend.net (maren.math.ntnu.no [129.241.211.48]) by fri.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with SMTP for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 17:34:58 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 25637 invoked by uid 1001); 19 Nov 2005 17:34:57 +0100 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 19 Nov 2005 17:34:57 +0100 Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 17:34:57 +0100 (CET) From: Svein Halvor Halvorsen X-X-Sender: sveinhal@maren.thelosingend.net To: Lowell Gilbert In-Reply-To: <44veyowxhs.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Message-ID: <20051119173245.G25196@maren.thelosingend.net> References: <20051118124412.T21919@maren.thelosingend.net> <44veyowxhs.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Content-Scanned: with sophos and spamassassin at mailgw.ntnu.no. Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup scheme X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 16:35:07 -0000 * Lowell Gilbert [2005-11-19 08:58 -0500] > Svein Halvor Halvorsen writes: : : > > So I've got 1-6 working. This gived my a space efficient backup system, > > remotely stored. As to pt. 7, I was thinking of using NFS, but since the > > remote server is behind NAT, this seems unfeasible. So now what? > > > > NFS over VPN? ggated/ggatec? Other solutions? > > Routing protocols aren't going to help. If you want to mount a > filesystem remotely, you need some kind of network filesystem. NFS is > the most common way to do this, but should only be used on secure > networks (you should be able to make it traverse NAT okay, but if > there's a NAT in the way I'll guess there's probably also a public > internet). Running NFS over an encrypted VPN is an obvious idea; you > might want to look at net/arla (AFS) as well. There is work on an > ssh-based remote filesystem ("fuse"), but I don't know much about it > yet, beyond the fact that the recent FreeBSD status report announced > it ready for use. Ok, thanks for the pointers. I will look into those. But how about GEOM gate? Is that out of the questions? That is also unencrypted, but of this is non-sensitive data. Is ggate feasible?