And even over the local LAN, my setup is to use rsync over ssh. I also have
a separate user set up on each machine, so I don't hav to give my backup
machine root access to everything on the network.
On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 2:48 PM, Kbtest Testar <kbergros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi...
>
> During the transport the data is transferred over a ipsec VPN tunnel.
>
> Thank you for your input!
>
> Den mån 2 juli 2018 15:30G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users <
> backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> skrev:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> On Mon, 2 Jul 2018, Kbtest Testar wrote:
>>
>> > Any thoughts regarding my question about encryption?
>>
>> You might want to consider whether using whole-disk encryption plus a
>> Web interface to the backup data makes the data more secure or less so.
>>
>> You might want to consider encryption of the data during transport.
>>
>> I've been using whole-disk encryption with BackupPC 3.x for some years
>> with no issues. For remote machines data transport is encrypted using
>> OpenVPN, but over our LANs it usually isn't encrypted, just a password
>> for rsync, or access control via /etc/hosts.allow, etc.
>>
>> --
>>
>> 73,
>> Ged.
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