Mathias Palm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > I am using it to backup a bunch of maschines on one tape also using > cron. I found it easy to configure and am quite satisfied. You can even > configure Amanda in a way that it only transfers changes. On the other > hand, Amanda is meant to dump backups on tapes. I cant tell you if there > is an easy way to reconfigure it.
No tape device here. >> - If it is unsecure, how would I do such backups without having to >> enter passpgrase/passwd ? >> > > What sort of security do you want? Do you want your backups be > encrypted? Amanda can't do that, to my knowledge. I'd like network transfers to be inexploitable by other parts : only admins of both machines should be able to get in backups (that implies file permissions locally, and encrypted communication between stations). > Amanda provides some sort of restricted host access. But I cant tell, if > it would retain a determined attacker. > > Otherwise I have not heart of exploits of amanda yet. Lets hope we won't. >> Thanks a lot Again :-) [...] -- Boris Daix "Feel free to be free, or not to be..." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]