[Box Backup] Tunneling TLS through SSH?

[E.W. Peter Jalajas]

Hi Magnus,

Do these pages help?:
http://www.rzg.mpg.de/networking/tunnelling.html
http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/66

Making this up as I go, can you do something maybe like:
In bbackupd.conf, change
  StoreHostname = yourhost
to 
  StoreHostname = localhost
Then set up your ssh keys.
Then create the tunnel in an init script and/or a cron job:
  ssh -L 2201:storeserver:2201 farawayrouter  cat - 
(The cat - trick is new to me.)

(I don't suppose you can use your box keys instead of having to
generate new ones.)

Leaving the tunnel open like that is a little weird, I guess, and maybe
not stable.  Maybe you can hack the bbbackud somehow to first create
the tunnel? 

(I'm experimenting with openvpn http://openvpn.net/ at the moment for a
client who wants to do off-site backups to his new big WinXP box at
home. Don't know if that helps at all.)

I hope that is close to being correct and helps a tiny bit.

Removing all doubt,
Pete
--- Magnus Homann <magnus@homann.se> wrote:

> Is it possible to tunnel TLS through SSH? My backup server is Far
> Away, 
> and I can't open the bbstored port on that machine. Thus, ssh to
> rescue. 
> Or so I thought, but I have a hard time debugging the setup. I'm no
> root 
> on the bbstored machine.
> 
> Has anyone succeeded in doing this? How?
> 
> Thanks,
> Magnus
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