[Box Backup] setting up the server and client

[scartomail]

Hi Achim,

Thanks for the link to the HowTo.
The usefull information I found here is that you realy need to have
a sepparate client and server to create the certificate files.
The HowTo is more a HowTo on how to create a bash script by the way :-)
But sepperating the ca, server and client actions make it easy for the eyes.

Anyway, the information on the *.raw file seems to be there.
I will try to use this and go and setup it up this way.

Wouldn't it be easyer if all the certificate files would be created on the server, or on the CA server?
This way you could give a new client just a set of files and after a litle configuration he could start backing up. 

There must be a technical(security) reason not to do it, or isn't there?

Rgds Edo




--- On Fri, 8/7/09, Achim <achim+box at qustodium.net> wrote:

> From: Achim <achim+box at qustodium.net>
> Subject: Re: [Box Backup] setting up the server and client
> To: boxbackup at boxbackup.org
> Date: Friday, August 7, 2009, 11:18 AM
> Hello Edo:
> 
> On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 08:05:02 -0700 (PDT), scartomail <scartomail at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > And now I seem to do some stuff that creates a *.raw
> file.
> > Also I have to sign the files for the client.
> > But doing so I need to make a client of my server???
> > 
> > Unfortunatly I can't realy extract the information in
> good walthrough
> howto
> > way from the website(planning to make one once I got
> this figured out).
> > 
> > Am I doing something wrong?
> > What should I be doing next?
> > 
> > I am planning to us a windows client together with
> boxi.
> 
> This is a pretty straightforward HOWTO:
> <http://xkr47.outerspace.dyndns.org/howtos/boxbackup/>
> 
> Please keep in mind for your testing purposes that the
> account numbering
> system currently seems broken between Boxi and Box Backup
> [1], so only use
> account numbers 1 up to 9 to be on the safe side.
> 
> Good luck, Achim
> 
> [1]
> <https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2831479&group_id=135105&atid=731482>
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