Re: [BackupPC-users] antivirus on backuppc
"Trey Nolen" writes:
> > the files are stored in a compressed (not strictly gzip) format; which is
> > probably throwing the scanner off.
> >
> > you could always try storing the files uncompressed, by specifying the
> > following option:
> > $Conf{CompressLevel} = 0;
> >
> > try that on the host in question, and see if your virus scanner detects
> > the
> > virus after it's been backed up.
> >
>
> Unfortunately, due to space requirements, we *have* to use compression. Is
> there anything I could use on the command line to maybe do a dummy "restore"
> and pipe the output through the virus scanner? That would require a ton of
> processor work, but it might be OK every now and then.
You could do it as part of an archive script. It runs BackupPC_tarCreate,
which you could unpack and run the virus scan.
Craig
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Re: [BackupPC-users] antivirus on backuppc
On 11/10 06:04 , Trey Nolen wrote: > Unfortunately, due to space requirements, we *have* to use compression. Is > there anything I could use on the command line to maybe do a dummy "restore" > and pipe the output through the virus scanner? That would require a ton of > processor work, but it might be OK every now and then. try the BackupPC_tarCreate command; it just creates an uncompressed tar stream to STDOUT. you might be able to pipe that into a virus scanner. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] antivirus on backuppc
the files are stored in a compressed (not strictly gzip) format; which is
probably throwing the scanner off.
you could always try storing the files uncompressed, by specifying the
following option:
$Conf{CompressLevel} = 0;
try that on the host in question, and see if your virus scanner detects
the
virus after it's been backed up.
Unfortunately, due to space requirements, we *have* to use compression. Is
there anything I could use on the command line to maybe do a dummy "restore"
and pipe the output through the virus scanner? That would require a ton of
processor work, but it might be OK every now and then.
Trey
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Re: [BackupPC-users] antivirus on backuppc
On 11/10 05:46 , Trey Nolen wrote:
> I was thinking about scanning my backups with ClamAV. I figured I might
> spot viruses on the backups and then I can go attend to them on the machines
> themselves - just an added layer of protection. However, I was doing some
> testing, and I backed up a host with the test virus EICAR.COM on it. When I
> scan the archive with Clam, it doesn't see the file as a virus. Would this
> result be just because of the structure of the test virus, or is the way
> Backuppc stores the files going to hide all viruses? Has anyone tried this
> before? If the problem involves the way the files are stored, is there any
> other way of scanning them? I would prefer to be able to scan selected
> hosts at selected times and not every time I do a backup because of the
> processor requirements. Any input is appreciated.
the files are stored in a compressed (not strictly gzip) format; which is
probably throwing the scanner off.
you could always try storing the files uncompressed, by specifying the
following option:
$Conf{CompressLevel} = 0;
try that on the host in question, and see if your virus scanner detects the
virus after it's been backed up.
--
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com
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