From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Qtjmh-0007Y8-CX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:20:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3A1DB21C178; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:19:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com (mail-ew0-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8675E21C25E for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:18:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy8 with SMTP id 8so502007ewy.40 for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:18:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=jOarLe/4o/fVtKDSolEIRpQIA8mXElmJXilJh1/mmak=; b=Ves1U11WSXxitxR5JTs0tLhCaDJd6OnOrUxo48ZxdEEutun47YTSC2ljN/4MBhFe/1 nCJCol9Zw1J73zImmWcnK1mBtjZPeWast9b3mosz2PLBvosy6Bx3jLMWTmGnyZbC6S9x R8dyrFSluPH9KHgNEgGiiX1Mcf3jaiMXAbvTc= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.14.147.143 with SMTP id t15mr414119eej.76.1313601505599; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:18:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.14.100.140 with HTTP; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:18:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1594706.BMHADekol8@eve> References: <54732072.QyOj10dyxT@eve> <1594706.BMHADekol8@eve> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:18:25 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} rdiff-backup: push or pull? From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 42b0f0d77314b3c8574cf861855aade1 >> > You can seperate the backups by giving each system a different account >> > where to store the backups. >> >> I'm not sure what you mean. =A0The backups are all stored on the backup >> server. > > Each machine to be backed up has a different account on the backup server= . > This will prevent machine A from accessing the backups of machine B. > > This way, if one machine is compromised, only this machines backups can b= e > accessed using the access-keys for the backup. And this machines keys can= then > be revoked without affecting other backups. That's a great idea. I will do that. Should that backup account have any special configuration, or just a standard new user? - Grant