OT: Tape less Backup System

[D. Thomas Podnar]

| On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 01:41:24PM -0500, D. Thomas Podnar wrote:
| > | I'm guessing that ftps is *not* sftp... and I have to admit to never having heard of
| > | ftps.  I guess I'll go look it up.
| > 
| > ftps is "Secure ftp using SSL as a transport". It is not SFTP, which requires
| > more administration.
| 
| Hmmm...
| 
| > The point I was trying to make was that yes, we examine lots of alternatives
| > before we start making major changes to BackupEDGE. As we see here frequently,
| > there are lots of ways to achieve most goals, some better than others, and
| > some that are just brute force, but work.
| > 
| > We picked ftp/ftps as a protocol that was elegant, easy to implement and embed
| > with the full BackupEDGE feature set for devices, and requiring essentially
| > NO administration on the ftp server side, other than creating an ftp account.
| > The last part is especially important when dealing with NAS appliances for
| > which there may be very little access to the actual operating system.
| 
| That's for the *uncrypted* version, clearly; I assume special measures are
| necessary for ftps.
| 

Not necessarily. Many modern ftp servers (for instance ProFTPD) can
negotiate ftps automatically.

| But yes, this speaks directly to my Rule #1: "Get The Glue Right".
| 
| Cheers,
| -- jra
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Tom