On Sunday 20 November 2005 22:35, Landon Fuller wrote: > Arno Lehmann wrote: > > Hmm. A good manual section about VPN setup could solve these problems :-) > > > > Seriously, using a VPN to backup data would be one good option as long > > as transport encryption is not fully implemented. Once transport > > encryption is stable, things look different... One possible solution > > might be a bacula proxy to run on the firewall... or simply port > > forwarding through the firewall (or NAT device)... but, of course, that > > doesn't do everything the client initiated backup does: the schedules > > would remain a DIR thingie (just right in my opinion ;-) > > Transport encryption is fully implemented in the UNIX daemons, and is > very stable. I've been using it for our office backups for about four > months now. > > Win32 support for transport encryption requires a small amount of code > to implement entropy gathering using Microsoft's Crypto API. I'm the > blocking factor there -- building the win32 file daemon is complicated, > and while I can run Windows via kqemu, I don't have a copy of MS Visual > Studio. > > Additionally, the GUI consoles/tray monitor do not support transport > encryption. This is just a matter of copying the relevant code from > bconsole. This would be an excellent small project for an aspiring > developer -- otherwise, I've acquired a FreeBSD workstation and will get > around to adding support.
Uh. The GUI consoles *do* support communications encryption, unless I made some error in adding the code. However, I completely forgot about adding it to the tray monitor :-( -- Best regards, Kern ("> /\ V_V ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today Register for a JBoss Training Course. Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005. For more info visit: http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7628&alloc_id=16845&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users