Fresel Michal - hi competence e.U. wrote at about 21:09:13 +0100 on Wednesday, 
March 23, 2011:
 > hi
 > 
 > maybe we can move the client-config-files to a subdirectory of __TOPDIR__ 
 > with the next release?
 > 
Config files belong in /etc -- it's the Unix way.
If you don't want it there, you can change it by creating your own
install.

 > for SMB and rsyncd credentials ae stored inside of the config-files
 > 
 > as we already have ssh-private keys in __TOPDIR__/.ssh
 > a move to i.e.  __TOPDIR__/config
 > would be a nice implementation

The location of ssh keys are determined not by BackupPC but by the
home directory specified in /etc/passwd. Personally, I store my keys
in /etc/Backuppc/.ssh so that for me TopDir is purely data.

 > 
 > we have an encrypted __TOPDIR__ mounted as /var/lib/backuppc
 > Keeping data secret is good - but the credentials are not encrypted by 
 > default (as inside unencrypted /etc/backuppc)
 > moving to a subdirectory of __TOPDIR__ will further provide confidentiality
 > 

data goes in /var
configurations go in /etc
It's a *nix standard. But you are free to violate if you want...

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