OT: Tape less Backup System

[Brian K. White]

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From: "Fairlight" <fairlite at fairlite.com>
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Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Tape less Backup System


> With neither thought nor caution, J. P. Radley blurted:
>>
>> BackupEDGE 2.1 Personal License ... for non-commercial use ONLY.
>>
>> It's $90.00, and with the new ability to ftp the archive to any storage
>> device on the Network, does not even require a tape or DVD drive.
>
> FTP is pretty passe these days.  As much as people complain about telnet
> vs ssh, I'm surprised the same argument isn't being made about ftp vs scp
> or even sftp.  Same arguments exist.  I personally don't like sftp, but I
> haven't had a good experience with it.  I tried replacing sftp-server with
> vsftpd, and it didn't like that--kept erroring out on me.  Pretty sure I
> know why, but I can say that sftp-server is not robust enough 
> currently--NO
> jailing ability, which is what I needed out of it.

That's funny I have a site with jailed sftp going on 2 years old now.
(yeah, it required a patch, but it's a long standing much used patch that 
keeps updating right along with the main source)

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