As many already sudgested: VPN is your best choice. Sometimes VPN is not
an option though, the second best option is:
http://cns.utoronto.ca/~pkern/stuff/

There is a patch which will allow the SSL encryption of the amanda dump
images. It is pretty good, since you can specify in a dumptype if you want
a encryption or not.

As for Kerberos: unless you know it well and have a infrastructure running
already it is probably the least advisable option of the three. In
addition to that we could not compile Amanda with Kerberos support on
solaris no matter what we tried.

Regards

Kirill


Kirill Ponazdyr
Technical Director
Codeangels Solutions
Tel: +41 (0)43 844 90 10
Fax: +41 (0)43 844 90 12

> Hello,
>
> Let's take the scenario where I have got an AMANDA server located at one
> central site and have a few other servers located at various places
> around the globe which of course all need to be backed up by the
> centraon site's AMANDA server. My question is now more related about
> security and how secure it is to run backups over the internet. Is AMANA
> secure by default to run over the internet or are there any optional
> compiling options or features which I should use to make the clients
> itself and the dump secure ?
>
> Many thanks for your opinion
>
> Regards