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Data Transfer over the VPN Tunnel

Hello all. I have a interesting situation. I have a client who wants buy a server and take it to his home and start backing up data from his office. I am talking about up 10 gigs a day. He wants to backup data from office once and then take the server to his house and setup a system that will backup incremental data from his office every night. i called symantec and confirmed that by using backup exec 2010 a live data backup can be done. My question to you is how can we achieve it. He has a watchguard x20 in the office and he can get a static ip address for his house. I am assuming that he will need a fire wall of some sort in his house as well to create a vpn tunnel from the office to his house and create a mapped network drive and run incremental back up over the internet? Also how safe it is to transfer data over the internet. Your input in this matter is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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mattkiran

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I must say that this Knowledge base is worth every penny. Thank you so much for a quick response and great ideas. I was thinking about in the office I would run a backup Once a week as a separate job and run incremental jobs every night remotely. But now it is clear that I should run differential backup jobs instead.y client has watchguard firewall in his office and I was thinking about getting another similar watchguard for his home and also getting a static ip address for his home.The sole purpose of his home internet service will be to run backups at night from his office. I will check shrewsoft VPN . He has Windows 2008 storage server in his office and windows 2008 std. in his house. You think I should run software based VPN like shrewsoft which I have no problems doing. I just want to make sure that I am offering some kind of encryption to the VPN tunnel. Thank you so much.

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mattkiran

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Thank you so much for your help. I have two watch guard firewall in my office. I am planning to test out this theory i my office. I will setup two firewalls as two remote locations. Connect two different switches and then connect two server to those switches. Create the same environment and connect two firewalls at the internet ports to create a WAN connection. Am I correct in trying this ? Thank you in advance for all your help.

Qlemo

Yes. It is important that boxes in a VPN test do not have any direct connection, and different IP networks. That setup should be fine for test.

mattkiran

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Great! Thank you so much. I will report back in couple of days. T

mattkiran

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It was very helpful.