Hi,

I understand that there is a risk for any application on the Internet.
Heck, even Nginx and Apache has a certain risk.

I'm trying to gage the amount of risk based on the security of the
director. My understanding is that I would need to expose a TLS socket
which no one can interact with without an acceptable key. That said, I
understand that if one of my client is compromised, then the attacker would
have a foothold on the director.

Should this be a concern? Can a "rogue" file client really do any damage
other to its backup? I guess it could try filling the storage pool. Or am I
being paranoid?

Cheers,

On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 2:36 PM Spadajspadaj <[email protected]> wrote:

> In case of multi-location setup you need to think about ways of limiting
> access and connection direction.
>
> I have a "reverse" setup - I needed passive clients so I can initiate
> connections from director/sd _to_ fd. You might need the opposite, as I
> see, so it's pretty standard.
>
> There is _always_ a risk when you're putting something open to the
> internet so if you want to limit your exposure, think about filtering the
> traffic on the network/OS level (limiting access to bareos ports only to
> specific addreses) and of course you can always think about setting up a
> VPN between your locations.
> On 24.09.2021 09:25, Florian Panzer - PLUSTECH GmbH wrote:
>
> We're runnig this setup (public director + client initiated fd
> connections) with overall success.
> No problems so far - apart from the usual* ;)
>
> I'm sure nobody will gurarantee that there are no security flaws - there
> most like are.
>
>
> *) bareos-dir crashing on typo in config followed by reload
> *) bareos-dir crashing because it's tuesday
>
> Florian Panzer
>
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> Am 24.09.21 um 02:51 schrieb Alexandre Denault:
>
> Hi,
>
> I’m working on a somewhat complicated Bareos setup and it would be must
> simpler/easier to host the Bareos Director over the Internet. Combined with
> Active Storage and File clients,  it would simplify my multisite setup
> greatly.
>
> That said, is the Bareos Director robust enough to be hosted over the
> Intenet? Is it secure? I would assure that any client without a private key
> recognized by the Director would not be able to interact with it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alex
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