Greetings All, Although TLS is a good protocal from what I have read, establishing a VPN allows the client side to easily tunnel over firewalls and seems to be a more secure method in that the vpn will be using certificates to establish the liks which is better than open passwords from my basic initial reading.
We will have only a very few open ports to the Bacula cluster and it appeared to me that having the client side initiate an OpenVPN connection to the main director server, perform the encrypted backup, and disconnect until the next scheduled backup is an optimal method although I may be wrong. What do you think? Cheers, Lonnie On Thu, October 5, 2006 13:14, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > On Thursday 05 October 2006 09:45, Frank Sweetser wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 11:48:32AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> Greetings All, >>> >>> >>> I was just considering more options for the backup system that we >>> would like to get in place and it occurred to me that it would be a >>> great thing if I could have the bacula client machines connect to the >>> bacula server via OpenVPN when it was time to do the backup and then >>> disconnect after the backup job was completed for that particular >>> client. >> >> Well, my first question would be - what are you trying to accomplish >> that can't already be done via native TLS? > > My first thought is "Access to the company's LAN, which the laptop (or > other machine) would not have otherwise." In other words, there can't > even be a connection for backup without starting up the VPN first. > > j > > -- > Joshua Kugler > Lead System Admin -- Senior Programmer > http://www.eeinternet.com > PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ ID 0xDB26D7CE > PO Box 80086 -- Fairbanks, AK 99708 -- Ph: 907-456-5581 Fax: 907-456-3111 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
