Hi all, I've come by Bareos by accident after being a longtime Bacula user. I have local and remote servers (by using some ssh port forwarding fiddling) and some local "static" machines now in my backup and it's working great.
Now I'd like to expand this to have laptops backed up as well. These laptops are on the road so the IPs/hostnames can't be put in the config as they're changing. I was wondering if there's a possibility to backup these clients as well. I understand I can open up some firewall ports to the internet to let filedaemons connect to my server. However the server initiates some connections as well IIRC and that would require the client side to change the firewall to allow these (for example the router where this laptop is connected to). Is this secure? And I mainly mean: is it a good idea to have these ports open to the internet? Perhaps someone can bruteforce it or the "protection" is not that strong? Another way would be to install OpenVPN and let each client setup a VPN. While this is certainly possible it's yet another tool that has to be installed + the openvpn tunnel should be up to make the backup work. Any remarks or thoughts are welcome. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
