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From: Joost Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} rdiff-backup: push or pull?
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 06:08:30
Message-Id: 1594706.BMHADekol8@eve
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} rdiff-backup: push or pull? by Grant
1 On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 04:50:40 PM Grant wrote:
2 > > You can seperate the backups by giving each system a different account
3 > > where to store the backups.
4 >
5 > I'm not sure what you mean. The backups are all stored on the backup
6 > server.
7
8 Each machine to be backed up has a different account on the backup server.
9 This will prevent machine A from accessing the backups of machine B.
10
11 This way, if one machine is compromised, only this machines backups can be
12 accessed using the access-keys for the backup. And this machines keys can then
13 be revoked without affecting other backups.
14
15 --
16 Joost

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