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Hi All,
I am a newbie to this group and have a couple of queries:
1. Is anyone else running BackupPc as a Backup Service to the general public? Is this a recommended practice? Have you got any general comments on how it is going? It would mainly be backing up Windows computers.
2. How difficult would it be to add a feature whereby the backup user assings a sub-account username and password to a particular directory in their backup? I would like this feature so that users (customers) can assign this username and password and then give this info to their accountants, who will then login and restore their accounting data file, without having full access to all the users files.
TIA,
Gordon




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Gordon Milne wrote:

1. Is anyone else running BackupPc as a Backup Service to the general
public? Is this a recommended practice? Have you got any general
comments on how it is going? It would mainly be backing up Windows
computers.


I'm not, but it could probably be done. As long as the client has a
high speed uplink to the net and your pipe can handle the load of
multiple clients.

2. How difficult would it be to add a feature whereby the backup user
assings a sub-account username and password to a particular directory
in their backup? I would like this feature so that users (customers)
can assign this username and password and then give this info to their
accountants, who will then login and restore their accounting data
file, without having full access to all the users files.

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BackupPC has an option where you can specify a name(s) that have control
over a particular backup, this is the moreUser feature. The issue is,
you must receive the name(s) from the client and you must also specify
the directories to be backed up, unless you give the client some type of
shell access to your backup server. In which case, you'd give them
authorities only to their /backup/pc/client directory and allow them to
make the per-pc changes to their own files.

Doug





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-----Original Message-----
From: Gordon Milne [mailto:gmilne < at > mshl.com.au]

2. How difficult would it be to add a feature whereby the backup user
assings
a sub-account username and password to a particular directory in their
backup?
I would like this feature so that users (customers) can assign this
username
and password and then give this info to their accountants, who will then
login
and restore their accounting data file, without having full access to all
the
users files.

I do this on our lan so that users only have access to their own backups.
Set up the hosts file with the "user" field matching the account name they
auth with.

For example, in our case, we use mod_auth_smb, so for the user field I make
sure it matches their NT Domain login name. I assume this will work with
any auth method supported by the web server & browser.

#host dhcp user moreUsers
host1 0 user1
^--- this is their NT Domain login

Actually, in our case, I do not want users getting the email so our file is
more of the format:

#host dhcp user moreUsers
host1 0 domainadminaccount user1
host2 0 domainadminaccount user2
host3 0 domainadminaccount firstname\ lastname

The users can still access their backups, but the "domainadminaccount" can
access all backups as well as receive all email notificatons.

Unless you can figure a way to give them secure access to their config.pl,
you would need to configure that for everyone.

Hope this helps.

Mike



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"Gordon Milne" writes:

2. How difficult would it be to add a feature whereby the backup user
assings a sub-account username and password to a particular directory in
their backup? I would like this feature so that users (customers) can
assign this username and password and then give this info to their
accountants, who will then login and restore their accounting data file,
without having full access to all the users files.

Several people have replied.

You appear to be asking about whether you can restrict a user's
permissions to a subset of a backup. That's not supported.

What you could do is split the backup into two pieces. Create
two clients (eg: "foo" and "foo_acct"). In foo_acct's config.pl,
set $Conf{ClientNameAlias} to "foo", so they both refer to the
same actual machine. On foo backup all the files execpt the
accounting data file. On foo_acct, backup just the accounting
data file. Then, as the other replies suggested, provide the
desired user-level access to foo and foo_acct.

Craig


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