From hi at stavros.io Tue Nov 5 00:51:47 2013 From: hi at stavros.io (Stavros Korokithakis) Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 02:51:47 +0200 Subject: [Box Backup] SSH/SSL Message-ID: <52784123.20701@stavros.io> Hello, I'm currently evaluating various backup programs, and Box Backup seems very promising. However, trying to set it up is quite the task, as SSL is a pain to install. Is there any way to run it over plain SSH, and, if not, would this be supported in a future version? Thanks, Stavros From chris at qwirx.com Sun Nov 10 19:23:57 2013 From: chris at qwirx.com (Chris Wilson) Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 19:23:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Box Backup] SSH/SSL In-Reply-To: <52784123.20701@stavros.io> References: <52784123.20701@stavros.io> Message-ID: Hi Stavros, On Tue, 5 Nov 2013, Stavros Korokithakis wrote: > I'm currently evaluating various backup programs, and Box Backup seems > very promising. However, trying to set it up is quite the task, as SSL > is a pain to install. Is there any way to run it over plain SSH, and, if > not, would this be supported in a future version? That's strange, I've set it up many times and never had a problem with the SSL certificate setup. The only thing I can imagine being a problem is if you have many clients to configure, in different locations, so sending back the certificates to be signed is painful. I did start writing a CGI certificate manager which is part of the Box Backup source, and you could try it out if you like. Unfortunately SSL is essential to the security of the system, since the SSL certificate is the only thing that ensures that the connecting client is actually authorised to connect and access the account that it's trying to access. It would theoretically be possible to either (a) mount the filesystem over sshfs and do a local backup to it, or (b) remove authentication from the protocol and have you assert that you trust all the clients and build a network (ssh or vpn) for it to run over, but neither mechanism is implemented at the moment. Cheers, Chris. -- _____ __ _ \ __/ / ,__(_)_ | Chris Wilson Cambs UK | / (_/ ,\/ _/ /_ \ | Security/C/C++/Java/Ruby/Perl/SQL Developer | \__/_/_/_//_/___/ | We are GNU : free your mind & your software | From kenneth at dalbjerg.nu Mon Nov 18 22:22:04 2013 From: kenneth at dalbjerg.nu (Kenneth Dalbjerg) Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 23:22:04 +0100 Subject: [Box Backup] Boxbackup Message-ID: Hi I have search with Google for NFS and boxbackup. When i want to create a new user: bbstoreaccounts create 1 0 100G 120G It just hang there, when using NFS store, but if i choice to use a locally store everything works fine. I then found that boxbackup is using file locking, and this maybe not works on NFS share, i think it dosen't work. But is there a work around? -- Venlig hilsen Kenneth Qvistgaard Dalbjerg Skolevangsvej 110, 8450 Hammel Telefon. 36948778 eller mobil 30295949 Email: kenneth at dalbjerg.nu http://www.kennethdalbjerg.dk Http://www.skolevangsvej.dk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dalbjerg Twitter: https://twitter.com/kdalbjerg -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From garry at nethinks.com Mon Nov 25 10:43:25 2013 From: garry at nethinks.com (Garry Glendown) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 11:43:25 +0100 Subject: [Box Backup] Boxbackup In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <529329CD.4040604@nethinks.com> On 18.11.2013 23:22, Kenneth Dalbjerg wrote: > Hi > > I have search with Google for NFS and boxbackup. > When i want to create a new user: > bbstoreaccounts create 1 0 100G 120G > > It just hang there, when using NFS store, but if i choice to use a > locally store everything works fine. > > I then found that boxbackup is using file locking, and this maybe not > works on NFS share, i think it dosen't work. But is there a work around? > I'm using BoxBackup on my Raspberry Pi with a QNAP storage over NFS, which works just fine ... didn't do any special configs, either ... /etc/fstab: qnap-storage:/nfs/raspi /nfs nfs defaults 0 0 raidfile.conf: disc0 { SetNumber = 0 BlockSize = 1024 Dir0 = /nfs/box Dir1 = /nfs/box Dir2 = /nfs/box } Could it be you have some general problem in your NFS setup? -gg From chris at qwirx.com Mon Nov 25 11:40:55 2013 From: chris at qwirx.com (Chris Wilson) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 11:40:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Box Backup] Boxbackup In-Reply-To: <529329CD.4040604@nethinks.com> References: <529329CD.4040604@nethinks.com> Message-ID: Hi all, On Mon, 25 Nov 2013, Garry Glendown wrote: > On 18.11.2013 23:22, Kenneth Dalbjerg wrote: >> Hi >> >> I have search with Google for NFS and boxbackup. >> When i want to create a new user: >> bbstoreaccounts create 1 0 100G 120G >> >> It just hang there, when using NFS store, but if i choice to use a >> locally store everything works fine. >> >> I then found that boxbackup is using file locking, and this maybe not >> works on NFS share, i think it dosen't work. But is there a work around? File locking does work on NFS, IF you are running lockd. I'm not sure if you have to run it on both server and client. Might be worth a try. Cheers, Chris. -- _____ __ _ \ __/ / ,__(_)_ | Chris Wilson Cambs UK | / (_/ ,\/ _/ /_ \ | Security/C/C++/Java/Ruby/Perl/SQL Developer | \__/_/_/_//_/___/ | We are GNU : free your mind & your software |