Re: [BackupPC-users] Newbie: using a storage server different from Backu

The backuppc server should be isolated. Having any part of it run on the webserver is not best practices. Im not saying it wont work, im saying you shouldnt do it.

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Holger Parplies <wbppc AT parplies DOT de> wrote:

Hi,

that doesn't really change anything, does it?

Regards,
Holger

Andrei Stebakov wrote on 2008-10-06 09:33:42 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Newbie: using a storage server different from BackupPC server]:

> Dan, but what's wrong in having BackupPC on the Web server as long as it's
> doing the backup to a different partition, allocated only for backup?
>

> [...]

> > On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Andrei Stebakov <lispercat AT gmail DOT com>wrote:
> >
> >> It's because my only Linux system on the network is the Web server. It's
> >> not a problem to back itself up on a local hard drive.
> >> The problem I see is that the whole Linux system can be under attack and
> >> all the hard drives could be compromised (or even wiped out).

> >> [...]

> >> On the other hand I got a few windows systems on the network with lots of
> >> disk storage and not exposed to the Net.

(look here)

> >> I thought they could be good candidates to carry the backup data.

> >> [...]
> >> [rest of "what happened so far on <backuppc-users>" deleted for the sake
of the rest of the list]

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