Pseudolife
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- Jan 7, 2016
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I'm looking at building a second little FreeNAS box to use as an off-site back-up for my home FreeNAS box. The idea is that I would set it up in a family member's house so my server can replicate to it. I'd like to make it as plug-and-play as possible. The family member plugs in the power and Ethernet, turns it on, and leaves it alone.
Can I run OpenVPN as a client in a jail in such a way that it automatically links to our home networks (client on their end connecting to a server on my end) so I can access their remote FreeNAS interface from my network, and our two machines can rsync, but it doesn't redirect all their internet traffic through our network?
Also, I'd want to have plex running on the remote system as accessible to that remote system. Basically I'd like to incentivize my family member taking in this machine by having it provide them with access to the mirrored copy of our media library.
I'm still way too new at system networking to know how to do any of this. I'm assuming it's possible?
My back-up plan is more direct. Use SyncThing to replicate data between the servers, and put an OpenVPN server on the remote machine so I could connect into it when I need to access the interface. The downside is that I will have to mess with port forwarding on their router to make it work. That's less useful than plug-and-play. Also, I imagine rsyn between machines is better than having SyncThing crawling over all of our files.
Can I run OpenVPN as a client in a jail in such a way that it automatically links to our home networks (client on their end connecting to a server on my end) so I can access their remote FreeNAS interface from my network, and our two machines can rsync, but it doesn't redirect all their internet traffic through our network?
Also, I'd want to have plex running on the remote system as accessible to that remote system. Basically I'd like to incentivize my family member taking in this machine by having it provide them with access to the mirrored copy of our media library.
I'm still way too new at system networking to know how to do any of this. I'm assuming it's possible?
My back-up plan is more direct. Use SyncThing to replicate data between the servers, and put an OpenVPN server on the remote machine so I could connect into it when I need to access the interface. The downside is that I will have to mess with port forwarding on their router to make it work. That's less useful than plug-and-play. Also, I imagine rsyn between machines is better than having SyncThing crawling over all of our files.