huotg01
Senior Member
I made a tutorial to help those who are interested to transfer a local backup to a remote location using Rsync through a SSH tunnel between 2 Asus routers.
What should be an easy exercise on a normal Linux environment is a little bit more complex in a router environment, mainly because the transient nature of what is going on this little device. When setting up the environment, I came to the conclusion that it would have been a lot easier to do it with my Ubuntu/Linux box, but I decided to keep going on because not all my friends have a linux server, but all of them have a router with a usb port in which they can plug an external usb disk, and transfer transparently their own backup somewhere else.
Please note that there is a built-in feature that is supposed to do just that, but it was not working for me.
This tutorial is located in the wiki at the URL:
https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-me...c-through-a-SSH-tunnel-between-2-Asus-routers
In doing this tutorial, I understood why there is often errors in the first version of these texts. Quite often in the process of doing it, we change things on the fly to try to make them simpler, or better organized, creating in fact something different of what is really installed in our environment.
By doing so, I for sure did introduced many errors...
There is many different ways of doing what is explained in the tutorial, many probably better that what I did.
Also, some section are not really documented.
Therefore feel free to ask questions, make recommendations, suggest changes and make corrections using this thread.
Thanks,
GH
What should be an easy exercise on a normal Linux environment is a little bit more complex in a router environment, mainly because the transient nature of what is going on this little device. When setting up the environment, I came to the conclusion that it would have been a lot easier to do it with my Ubuntu/Linux box, but I decided to keep going on because not all my friends have a linux server, but all of them have a router with a usb port in which they can plug an external usb disk, and transfer transparently their own backup somewhere else.
Please note that there is a built-in feature that is supposed to do just that, but it was not working for me.
This tutorial is located in the wiki at the URL:
https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-me...c-through-a-SSH-tunnel-between-2-Asus-routers
In doing this tutorial, I understood why there is often errors in the first version of these texts. Quite often in the process of doing it, we change things on the fly to try to make them simpler, or better organized, creating in fact something different of what is really installed in our environment.
By doing so, I for sure did introduced many errors...
There is many different ways of doing what is explained in the tutorial, many probably better that what I did.
Also, some section are not really documented.
Therefore feel free to ask questions, make recommendations, suggest changes and make corrections using this thread.
Thanks,
GH
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