[Box Backup] Strange Request

Scott boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:44:20 +1000


I should explain my idea first then it may not seem so out there...

In a situation where you have lots of windows clients on a LAN connecting to
a [TRUSTED] single Linux box this box then connects to an external
[UNTRUSTED] Source.

ie. (WINDOZE LAN) -> (LOCAL TRUSTED SERVER) ---> (UNTRUSTED OFFSITE STORE)

This enables fast restoration when required over the LAN with the redundancy
of an offsite store.

However it does seem quite pointless to double encrypt the data from the
windows client which would mean tracking multiple keys etc.



-----Original Message-----
From: boxbackup-admin@fluffy.co.uk [mailto:boxbackup-admin@fluffy.co.uk] On
Behalf Of Ben Summers
Sent: Thursday, 28 September 2006 6:38 PM
To: boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Subject: Re: [Box Backup] Strange Request


And why would you need to remove encryption? Would you want to remove  
compression too? And even if you did that, you still wouldn't get a  
filesystem which looks like the original, because it'll all be  
encapsulated in the 'strange' way Box Backup does things.

Ben



On 27 Sep 2006, at 23:22, Scott wrote:

>
> I would prefer to keep the ease of management and all the features  
> that bb
> already has.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: boxbackup-admin@fluffy.co.uk [mailto:boxbackup- 
> admin@fluffy.co.uk] On
> Behalf Of Ben Summers
> Sent: Thursday, 28 September 2006 2:02 AM
> To: boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
> Subject: Re: [Box Backup] Strange Request
>
>
> Why would you want to do that?
>
> If you want no encryption, use something like rsync, as Martin  
> suggests.
>
> Ben
>
>
>
> On 27 Sep 2006, at 07:02, Scott wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>> 	I have a strange request. How hard would it be to modify bb in such
>> a way that the on-disk encryption is removed.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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