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scartomail boxbackup@boxbackup.org
Thu Sep 3 19:03:49 BST 2009


Hi,

I just had a crazy thougt and am in need of some critic :-)

BoxBackup uses port 2201 to do all of its work and uses openssl for it.
Openssh uses port 22 to communicate.
So they can work along eachother.

Now if you use rsync over ssh, you are able to copy the client logfiles to the BB server, preferable in one location.
Than you can have cron jobs on the server work the logfiles and:
- Send emails from one location to clients wich looks better organized.
- Or one combined email to the administrator.
- Have all the logfiles presented in a nice webpage

Rsync and ssh are both available for linux and windows clients.
It is proven and stable technology.
It would take of some points of the feature list, and the BB developers don't have create that code anymore because it's already there.
People without specific C++ skils could work on it as these are more or less administrative tasks.

Would this be something to work on or is this just a crazy thougt?

Rgds Edo



 



      



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