Hello,
I have been using backintime for more years than I can remember and I
love it. It just works.
I was wandering through the documentation and I realized that I could
use backintime to backup my local web server. Currently, the web server
has no backups, if something happens to it, I just rebuild it and copy
the content to the server. But it occurred to me that I can use
backintime to backup the server.
My problem is that when I backup my server, it stays on the server.
There are five solutions that present themselves:
1) Use an NFS mount from my enormous disk drive that I currently use as
the backup destination
2) Use a CIFS (samba) mount from my enormous disk drive that I currently
use as the backup destination
3) Use a cron job or similar to run rsync over SSH to pull the files
from the server to the enormous disk drive. This seems like the safest
solution from a computing security point of view because if the server
gets compromised, the putative bad guy does not get write access to the
enormous disk drive.
4) Use a cron job or similar to run rsync on the server to push the
files from the to the enormous disk drive.
5) Ask if there is a better solution.
The problems with solutions 1, 2, and 4 is that if a bad guy gets into
my server, then he or she has write access to my enormous disk drive.
Yes, I am aware that if a bad guy compromises my server, then he or she
can write malware and the backup system will copy it to the enormous
disk drive. But unless I do something stupid, that's as far as the
malware can get.
I see that version 1.6 is in the release process - my question might be
answered by upgrading. Is that the case?
Thank you
Jeff Silverman
https://jeffsilverman.ddns.net
[email protected]
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