[Box Backup-dev] Re: [Box Backup] ChrisMerge_1828

Roy boxbackup-dev@fluffy.co.uk
Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:11:00 +0200


E.W. Peter Jalajas wrote:
> Sorry, no, I never wrote that script.  My customers haven't cared about whether or not I have
> access to their Box Backup keys, so I just generate them myself on my Ubuntu Box Backup CA box. 
> I'd be glad to attempt to write that script if there is significant need, after I double check
> with Chris to make sure it is not already in Boxi.
>
> (For the record, I'd rather Chris worked on the Windows named pipe issue so that we can get easy
> client-side geo-redundancy.  
>
> Speaking of geo-redundancy, I right now have a 5GB Box Backup client test syncing up to my Box
> Backup image instance running on Amazon's EC2.  I'm working on how to mount my S3 account to that
> EC2 instance so that I can get around the 160GB limit, probably by buying S3InfiDisk/S3DFS for
> now, unless someone has a better idea.  Thoughts anyone?)
>
> --- James O'Gorman <james@netinertia.co.uk> wrote:
>
>   
>>>  My guess is that people are hand-customising the supplied bbackupd.conf 
>>>  file, and generating their keys on a Unix system. I think that Pete Jalajas 
>>>  has an OpenSSL script that generates keys on Windows.
>>>       
>
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Hi,

I really like to have such a script. That makes it easier for me to 
generate certs and config files on a Windows box. But if it is in Boxi, 
that would be good too, but I believe Chris hasn't worked on Boxi for 
quite some time?!

Greets,

Roy