[Box Backup] Signing Server Certificate Fails.

[Nigel Marsh]

On Thursday 28 Oct 2004 11:39, Ben Summers wrote:
> On 28 Oct 2004, at 10:35, Nigel Marsh wrote:
> > I do not find the install and setup instructions complicated. What I
> > do find
> > though is that for a newcomer, a typical client install requires
> > jumping from
> > one page to another and then back. The docs on the web site are nicely
> > separated by subject but, not by setup. If you had a page that just
> > listed a
> > client setup from start to finish, that may aleviate some of the
> > problems
> > that some folk are having.
>
> Do you mean a page of instructions, or a page listing the steps with
> links to the information on the other pages? The latter would be
> easiest to keep in step with everything else.

I just meant a single page listing the setup with no jumping from one page to 
another. I have a documentation site (needs some updates) for setting up 
various things on Gentoo. I am currently migrating it to Mambo CMS and 
cutting it down a bit in scope. Once done I will probably write something for 
Box Backup that breaks the setup into tasks rather than subject. I will let 
you know when it is done.  Hopefully work commitments will allow me continue 
with it this side of Christmas. 

http://www.monkeybox.org.uk

>
> > I find that having the backup keys and CA on my laptop in my /home/ca
> > dir
> > helps a lot. I have recently bought a usb memory stick and intend to
> > start
> > keeping it all on that for security. That will certainly keep it off
> > the net.
>
> Yes, that's certainly a good start!
>
> > Again, I have had zero problems with Box Backup and am very happy with
> > the
> > current setup.  I run clients successfully on Suse 9.1, Debian Sarge
> > and
> > Gentoo with the server on a Suse 9.1 box. I await with anticipation the
> > emergence of clients for OSX and Windows.
>
> The Mac OS X port is already perfectly functional, except that it
> doesn't back up the resource forks of files which may be a problem for
> some users. I just need to add multiple stream support into the system,
> and then it will be complete. Not a big job, but I haven't quite yet
> decided on the best way of doing it, and it isn't the highest priority
> at the moment.

Our Mac guy will be happy to hear this. I have not really taken much notice of 
it as at this time Macs are a mystery to me. I have just heard that I can 
borrow an imac for a couple of weeks to test your client and learn the OS.

:)

>
> > As an aside. I have not seen this mentioned but just if anyone is
> > interested.
> > My clients are small businesses that tend to be between 5 and 100
> > employees
> > that have one or two servers. All backup is done to our office over
> > the net.
> > As some of the larger clients are backing up, up to 100G, I keep a
> > clone of
> > the backup server on my laptop for initial backup on their own LAN.
> > The
> > laptop backs up to a firewire drive and the client account and backed
> > up data
> > is then just copied to the server back at the office.  For this initial
> > backup I edit the clients /etc/hosts file to tell it that the backup
> > servers
> > name resolves to the laptop on the local LAN and remove the entry once
> > done.
>
> Yes, this is a good solution. Note that you don't have to actually use
> the same server name, as long as both servers are signed by the same
> CA. The only thing which needs to stay the same is the account number.
> So you could configure against the laptop, then change the name of the
> server in the bbackupd.conf file afterwards, rather than messing around
> with /etc/hosts files. Keeps everything in one place.

Excellent, cheers Ben
>
> Ben
>
>
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Nige

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