Very good point as i probably would have eventually thought of that but didnt before my response.
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Steven S. Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > I would suggest you think about the cost of ssh versus sending passwords > in clear over the internet. I think you will find pretty quick that ssh > doesn't have enough overhead to be a problem where compromising your > server would be a big problem. > > Please think about security all the time. > > When done thinking about security, the other benefit of the ssh tunnel > was such that it allowed an easy way to go through his firewall. > > Critch > > ----- "Evan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Tunneling over ssh would take longer because of the overhead of ssh. I > > have > > never really set up rsync before but this howto looks pretty > > straightforward. http://transamrit.net/docs/rsync/ of course depending > > on > > distro (and if i am reading right you are going to do this to a mac?) > > things > > will be different. > > > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Andrew Farnsworth > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > > > I am trying to backup my server on the internet and was thinking of > > using > > > rsync. At the moment I need to backup a single volume but was > > considering > > > doing the entire server. Can someone point me in the direction of a > > good > > > intro to using rsync along with information on which ports I need to > > open in > > > the firewall to allow this to happen? Though I guess I could just > > tunnel it > > > over my SSH session now that I think about it... > > > > > > Thanks and MAIH... > > > > > > Andy > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Steven Critchfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
