Ok, so I run a smallish NAS and would now like to backup a machine onto it via rsync. Set up rsync in the freeNAS GUI and a cron job on the machine to be backed up, all working perfectly.
Now I was wondering if this is insecure, the transfer being over WAN. So I read up on using rsync over SSH but then thought about the following:
I don't "usually" expose anything on the freeNAS to the internet, everything I access remotely is exposed inside a jail for added security but I don't want to lose the nice freeNAS GUI for setting rsync up and run it inside a jail so I thought how about tunnelling rsync through SSH to a jail, meaning the freeNAS rsync service would only be exposed to this one specific jail and my rsync would still be talking to the rsync server only through a tunnel.
Would that be a solution and if yes, any pointers?
Now I was wondering if this is insecure, the transfer being over WAN. So I read up on using rsync over SSH but then thought about the following:
I don't "usually" expose anything on the freeNAS to the internet, everything I access remotely is exposed inside a jail for added security but I don't want to lose the nice freeNAS GUI for setting rsync up and run it inside a jail so I thought how about tunnelling rsync through SSH to a jail, meaning the freeNAS rsync service would only be exposed to this one specific jail and my rsync would still be talking to the rsync server only through a tunnel.
Would that be a solution and if yes, any pointers?