Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Client machine browsing only it's backups

2011-05-13 12:23:01
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Client machine browsing only it's backups
From: Jérôme Blion <jerome.blion AT free DOT fr>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 18:19:26 +0200
Le 13/05/2011 18:08, John Drescher a écrit :
> 2011/5/13 Paul Pathiakis<pathiaki2 AT yahoo DOT com>:
>> Hi,
>> I'm new on the list and I don't know if this question has been addressed.
>> I'm looking to provide an offsite backup service to my clients and I'd like
>> to use Bacula as the product. (I love it for enterprise backups.)
>> I have clients that would like, as part of their EDR, to send backups
>> offsite to my company.  This is easily done by installing a bacula-fd
>> client.
>> However, I don't want to incur the overhead of a backup
>> operator/administrator to service these requests.  I'd like the
>> customer/client to be able to do this.  My question is whether I can
>> configure bacula BAT or the Web interface to allow the client to only see
>> his site's backups?  I don't want all customers to see all other customers'
>> backups.
>> Is there a way to do this?
> There is ACL support in the client. However I am not too familiar with
> that (and what it prevents access to) since I do not use it on my
> network. You may want to use a separate database per client. That way
> the client will only see their stuff. This however will make it harder
> to manage your bacula volumes since I do not believe you can safely
> use the same bacula database in more than one catalog.
>
> John
>
I would suggest you several things:
  - don't grant any console access from the client's servers.
  - use a web interface (bweb, webacula) and set up ACL in this tool.

In Webacula, you can create "limited" accounts which could allow you to 
perform what you expect.


HTH.
Jerome Blion.

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