Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > I've been testing out the Amanda backup system lately; and am wondering about security on it. > As I understand the documentation, backing up Windows machines is done with tar or smbtar from a Samba server; which is plaintext. Also, while Amanda can use Kerberos authentication; it doesn't mention encrypting the backup traffic. > > so how can one go about securing Amanda traffic? It looks like there is a patch or two out there that would give Amanda the ability to be tunneled through SSL. One of them is here: http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~pkern/stuff/amanda-patch/ Other references that I've found so far seem to indicate that encryption will be enabled in the 2.5.x series of Amanda, but I don't know when that will appear. I'm interested in this, too. At work, we are still running ufsdump (for Solaris), which requires at least some of those dreaded r* programs. (Apparently, Linux's dump(8) program can handle SSH, just FYI.) Would you recommend Amanda (apart from the encryption issue)? -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ If you saw a heat wave, / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ would you wave back? \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org