[Box Backup] Tunneling TLS through SSH?

[Jamie Webb]

On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 08:20:21PM +0200, Magnus Homann 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?

I've not tried, but it should be as simple as:

ssh -L2201:localhost:2201 your.server.com

Then tell bbackupd that the store is on localhost. You may want to use
autossh to keep the connection live.

-- Jamie Webb