>> On Linux, how is communication between the clients and the backup >> server achieved as far as security? Does the backup server pull or do >> the clients push and as which user? > > This depends on the transfer method: > - tar and rsync tunnel their data over ssh -> secure.
I would use this. > And as reading the basic docs of backuppc tell you, the server pulls > the changes from the clients automatically or when told via the > web-interface. Does that mean the server has root read access to the entire filesystem of each of the clients via SSH keys? >> Can the web server reside on a different system than the backup >> server? > > Yes, but the web-interface has to have read-access to the > backuppc-filesystem to show you the current state and select files for > restore and stuff. If you really must, you can run the daemon and the > web-interface on separate machines and nfs-mount /var/lib/backuppc from > the daemons machine to the web-server. > But there is no real advantage in that, the web-interface isn't used > that heavily, its not slowing the daemon down if you run both on the > same machine. And you save administration-nightmare when you just run > both on the same machine. Agreed! - Grant ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ 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/
