On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 10:24:22 -0700 Grant <emailgrant AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> >> On Linux, how is communication between the clients and the backup
> >> server achieved as far as security?  Does the backup server pull
> >> or do the clients push and as which user?
> >
> > This depends on the transfer method:
> >  - tar and rsync tunnel their data over ssh -> secure.
> 
> I would use this.
> 
> > And as reading the basic docs of backuppc tell you, the server pulls
> > the changes from the clients automatically or when told via the
> > web-interface.
> 
> Does that mean the server has root read access to the entire
> filesystem of each of the clients via SSH keys?

Well, if you want backuppc to read everything to back it up, you have
to give it read-access to everything. And if you want to make use of
the in-place restore, it also has to have write access.

And if you don't trust the backup-system, of what use is the
backup-system?

Have fun,

Arnold

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