hello all,

 

i recently cobbled together a second unraid machine for remote backup.  my plan is to place this machine at my relatives house so i can back up important files to it from my local main unraid machine.

 

i have wireguard instance running on my opnsense firewall box.  i currently have wireguard running on my android phone and it works perfectly to connect to my opnsense and pretty much act like i am on home wifi all the time.

 

i would like to connect my backup unraid machine to my wireguard instance on my opnsense so that all data goes through the wireguard tunnel to my home network.

 

can someone walk me through this using the integrated wireguard function in settings.

 

i would like to set this up working at my house to verify everything works then bring it over to my relatives and basically plug it in and assume it is good to go.

 

let me know if there are is any other info that is required.

This video is easy to follow along.

thank you. i watched that video but it seems like it is setting up the unraid machine as the instance.  i want it to connect to another instance as a peer.  i would like all traffic from this unraid machine to tunnel through wireguard to my opnsense machine.

 

edit*** i think i got it working.  i am just playing with everything to make sure that all data from the unraid server goes through the wireguard tunnel.

Edited September 28, 20241 yr by knights_of_pine

I would recommend using the Tailscale plugin, runs on top of Wireguard and it's much easier to setup:

 

 

 

i actually use tailscale as well.  i just wanted to get it up and running in pure wireguard.

 

i ended up setting up tailscale between the two machines.  my goal using the user scripts plugin in is to RSYNC every morning a couple folders from my main machine to by remote machine for backup. the problem i am running into is the script runs but then fails saying i need to authenticate tailscale SSH.  i authenticate then it runs. how can i have it set so it doesnt need to authenticate every day?

 

8 hours ago, knights_of_pine said:

the problem i am running into is the script runs but then fails saying i need to authenticate tailscale SSH

Do you mean the script is trying to connect over SSH to the other server, or it's an issue with Tailscale SSH authentication?

i figured it out.  it was in the tailscale ACLs.  for anyone with the same issue.  it is the 'check period' where you must reauthenticate.  it is defaulted to 12 hours.  you can extend that or, what i did is change "action" from "check" to "accept" to not need to authenticate again.