RE: secure backups

["Kirk Brady" <Kirk.Brady () TeachersHealth com au>]

Hi Steven

Is password protecting the media/session not enough? Do members of the super users group need to be able to add/modify 
the jobs, or just be able to run them? Most backup software can work with any user that has Read permissions for the 
backup target, and can incorporate password level protection for the session or media which is needed for a restore. 
Unsure how this holds up to a brute force attack though.

HTH
Kirk Brady

-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Meyer [mailto:meysteven () gmail com]
Sent: Saturday, 29 October 2005 12:52 AM
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: secure backups


I am looking for a backup software that only the Superusers could use
to backup, but only the administrator could restore. That way nobody
could bring data out from the office and I wouldn't need to do
regularly backup on the user computer.
May be the backup should be done with a private and public key.
If anybody has a good idea, it would be very appreciated.
thank you
Steven Meyer