The backuppc server should be isolated.  Having any part of it run on the
webserver is not best practices.  Im not saying it wont work, im saying you
shouldnt do it.

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Holger Parplies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> that doesn't really change anything, does it?
>
> Regards,
> Holger
>
> Andrei Stebakov wrote on 2008-10-06 09:33:42 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
> Newbie: using a storage server different from BackupPC server]:
> > Dan, but what's wrong in having BackupPC on the Web server as long as
> it's
> > doing the backup to a different partition, allocated only for backup?
> >
> > [...]
> > > On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Andrei Stebakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >wrote:
> > >
> > >> It's because my only Linux system on the network is the Web server.
> It's
> > >> not a problem to back itself up on a local hard drive.
> > >> The problem I see is that the whole Linux system can be under attack
> and
> > >> all the hard drives could be compromised (or even wiped out).
> > >> [...]
> > >> On the other hand I got a few windows systems on the network with lots
> of
> > >> disk storage and not exposed to the Net.
> (look here)
> > >> I thought they could be good candidates to carry the backup data.
> > >> [...]
> > >> [rest of "what happened so far on <backuppc-users>" deleted for the
> sake
>      of the rest of the list]
>
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