It is possible, but I don't think it's a good idea.

If the hardware dies or it is stolen, you'll end up having your backup stolen 
too. You will loose both copies, the original and the backed up one.

And, of course, care should be taken to prevent people from outside to access 
the backuppc cgi. There is no perfect software and you should always keep as 
less things public as possible.

Cesar.


El 10/03/2011, a las 15:59, Michael Conner escribió:

> I'm looking at BackupPC and other options for a network-wide backup system in 
> the museum where I work. We have about 10 Windows computers, one OS X, one 
> web server running CENTOS 5.5, and an NAS (and may be adding another). Note 
> that my Linux knowledge is still limited but growing as I look at more open 
> source stuff.
> 
> I've been reading the documentation and various other things on the web, and 
> one basic question I'm unsure about is whether it is possible or advisable to 
> run BPC on the web server. Is this even possible given the Apache needs of 
> BPC? It does seem that the program would work best on dedicated computer, and 
> then copy or archive the backups to another disk or NAS for safety. But since 
> we currently only have one Linux machine (which is 64 bit and has open slots 
> for additional drives), I was wondering if it could be used, perhaps by 
> limiting access of the cgi scripts to localhost or network ip addresses. 
> Also, if it is run on the server, can it backup parts of the file system on 
> the server? For example, backup /var/www/html to its pool.
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> Mike
> 
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