February 18, 20242 yr Hi, I'm trying to setup an offsite backup for one of my servers. I've already figured out the rsync commands with passwordless SSH, but i'm not too thrilled about opening an SSH port to the general internet in order for it to work. What I'd ideally like to do is use the built in wireguard VPN i'm already using to temporarily link the two networks so the machines can act as local compainions without having to port forward my ssh port. tyia
February 18, 20242 yr Community Expert 9 hours ago, bman142 said: What I'd ideally like to do is use the built in wireguard VPN i'm already using to temporarily link the two networks so the machines can act as local compainions without having to port forward my ssh port. You can do that.
February 24, 20242 yr 12 minutes ago, bman142 said: how? If the VPN tunnel is already setup and if you can ping the remote machine from your local machine via that tunnel, then you just need to connect to your remote server via its local IP address. You should be aware however that the speed of a large backup through a VPN tunnel is likely to be significantly slower than through a direct SSH tunnel. Edited February 24, 20242 yr by Opawesome
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