ok, as some of you requested more detailed info ("why do you want to do this?") I will give more info, maybe you know of better approaches. I want to be able to nightly synchronise files that are on our lan with a remote machine that is on the other side of europe. Both machines have very decent internet connections. So basically this would function just like a normal backup, only not to tape, but to a remote network location. (harddisk, whatever) I wrote emails to various backup software supliers to ask if their product could backup to a remote location, an sftp site, for example. I would like the remote site to be as basic as possible. sftp (mechanism that winscp3 uses) or ftp. (less secure) They all say that their product cannot do something like that. So I started making up my own scenarious... Anyway, I've read all of your suggestions. Now you know this, do you have any other suggestions how to solve this issue? (btw: i completely 'own' the remote machine, I can do whatever I want on it) Thanks very much fort helping so far! Mourik Jan
-----Original Message----- From: Jon Nelson [mailto:jnelson-suse@jamponi.net] Sent: 15 December 2004 14:49 To: Heupink, Mourik Jan C. Cc: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] how to securely mount a remote filesystem via internet
Short answer: use OpenVPN to create a VPN between the two computers and use NFS over that. I recommend using OpenVPN in UDP mode and NFS in TCP mode.
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Heupink, Mourik Jan C. wrote:
dear list. :)
This will probably be a very simple question, with a very obvious answer to all of you, but not to me.
I would like to securely mount a (part of a) filesystem of another (suse) linux server via the internet. So that copying files to that certain mount point, actually means: copying that file to a server far away in another country. Clear..?
I've done some searching, and these seem to be options: - nfs (seems to be unsafe (except when over vpn)) - ssh (file transfer possible, but mounting as filesystem not) - lufs (enables you to mount ftp/ssh locations in filesystem, but requires kermnel recompile)
So, what do you people here use? And what is the 'recommened' way to do this? BTW: i can do whatever I want also on the remote machine, it's 'my' machine, so any configuration is possible. And yes: both sides have very decent internet connections.
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Jon Nelson
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