[BackupPC-devel] BackupPC_Admin C wrapper and apache hell

2017-03-19 Thread Richard Shaw
>From a Fedora packaging perspective we can't do the standard setup because we don't allow perl scripts to run as suid and can't use mod_perl because it requires a separate apache instance so instead we use a simple C wrapper that can run suid. The problem is that a compiled binary doesn't belong

[BackupPC-devel] Scaling out and extending the uses for BackupPC

2017-03-19 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Hi all, For the last two years I have been looking at scaling out the backup server end and making backup connections. And since over a decade, I've created solutions for improving backup from behind firewalls and from difficult client machines, while still keeping things mostly automated. At