Hello, my first attempt with BackupPC was to try to backup windows clients via rsync over ssh (cygwin) but transfer rates were very slow, so I switched to rsyncd.
All clients on the LAN and some laptops connected via VPN are now using rsyncd. Since these clients are all running windows xp/2k I could also use Samba for the transport. Reading about authentication in the rsyncd man page: [...] The authentication protocol used in rsync is a 128 bit MD4 based challenge response system. This is fairly weak protection, though (with at least one brute-force hash-finding algorithm publicly available). Also note that the rsync daemon protocol does not currently provide any encryption of the data that is transferred over the connection. Only authentication is provided. Use ssh as the transport if you want encryption. [...] Questions ========= 1) Regarding security: How does samba compares to rsyncd? 2) If I choose a password that is long and complicates enough, I should be safe regarding brut-force attacks? Transfer via rsyncd will still be unencrypted :-/ 3) If I tunnel rsyncd over SSH, will I get the low transfer rates like rsync+ssh on windows clients? 4) Is someone using rsync over SSH (Cygwin based) and get the same transfer speeds like rsyncd? Or will encryption always come with the cost of (much) lower transfer speeds? - Kurt ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
