On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:42:19PM -0400, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> I have been tasked with having a Buffalo Terastation Pro 2 NAS box,
> likely to be connected to a Linux box via samba, be the storage device
> to back up mostly Ubuntu and Centos systems. The trick is, the
> machines to be backed up
Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> Ideas are welcome.
Quite a situation your in, if security is that much of a concern
glad I don't work where you are, sounds like a real pain in the
ass.
Your only options to mount the NAS from what I could see on the
data sheet are FTP and Samba.
So what I would do is pro
>So what are the simplest options to back up the Linux hosts? rsync
>does come to mind, but how to do so securely from each host? I'd
>consider something via ssh, but that would mean an interactive login,
>and encrypting individual files on the hosts is not an option.
Rsync's default transport
nice simple script and setup info here...
http://www.jms1.net/code/rsync-backup.shtml
- rh
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Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> I have been tasked with having a Buffalo Terastation Pro 2 NAS box,
> likely to be connected to a Linux box via samba, be the storage device
> to back up mostly Ubuntu and Centos systems. The trick is, the
> machines to be backed up need to do so in an automated fashion and
You'll want to look into rsync over ssh with ssh key-based authentication.
On 9/12/09, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Scott Ehrlich wrote:
>> I have been tasked with having a Buffalo Terastation Pro 2 NAS box,
>> likely to be connected to a Linux box via samba, be the storage device
>> to back up mostly U
Jake wrote:
> You'll want to look into rsync over ssh with ssh key-based authentication.
>
indeed, note, the Terastation is in fact an embedded linux box and quite
'hackable'.first link on google for: terastation ssh rsync, says
its easy to enable ssh and rsync, see
http://bigdiver.word
... and you are welcome enough to use my rsync/ssh backup scripts...
http://www.effortlessis.com/backupbuddy
On Saturday 12 September 2009 12:06:59 John R Pierce wrote:
> Jake wrote:
> > You'll want to look into rsync over ssh with ssh key-based
> > authentication.
>
> indeed, note, the Terastat
At 10:42 PM 9/11/2009, you wrote:
>I have been tasked with having a Buffalo Terastation Pro 2 NAS box,
>likely to be connected to a Linux box via samba, be the storage device
>to back up mostly Ubuntu and Centos systems. The trick is, the
>machines to be backed up need to do so in an automated fas
Hi,
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 22:42, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> I ONLY plan to use samba to mount the NAS to my Linux server, unless
> someone comes up with a more secure method,
I don't know if I understand what you mean by the sentence above, but
Samba is *not* secure in the sense that nothing is en
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