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.
As Felix mentions, you can use a free copy of Microsoft VC++. The one minor
problem is that it is version 8, and the scripts are setup for version 7.1
which I have, so you need to tweak a bit. It seems that you can build and
use it with no problem, however, it also seems to be crippled so that you
cannot distribute any software that you create with it -- this doesn't seem
to be a big disadvantage.
Please see src/win32/README.vc8 However, wait for a couple of hours because
I still need to merge in the last update that a kind user sent me to that
README, which I will do shortly.
>
> 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.
>
> -landonf
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