On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 10:24:22 -0700 Grant <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Linux, how is communication between the clients and the backup > >> server achieved as far as security? Does the backup server pull > >> or do the clients push and as which user? > > > > This depends on the transfer method: > > - tar and rsync tunnel their data over ssh -> secure. > > I would use this. > > > And as reading the basic docs of backuppc tell you, the server pulls > > the changes from the clients automatically or when told via the > > web-interface. > > Does that mean the server has root read access to the entire > filesystem of each of the clients via SSH keys?
Well, if you want backuppc to read everything to back it up, you have to give it read-access to everything. And if you want to make use of the in-place restore, it also has to have write access. And if you don't trust the backup-system, of what use is the backup-system? Have fun, Arnold
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