Laptop Remote Backups - What do you use?

[la112651]

Hi all,

I've got some account managers which could do with backing up some files (50mb max) on a weekly basis while they are at home to our domain file server.

Is there a secure and simple way of doing this? (if we can do it without connecting to VPN then great)

I was thinking about writing an FTP script but was concerned over the username and password being easily accessible.

What do you guys use?

 

[whitecrook]

'security' is very rarely 'simple'

Don't use FTP. Use SSH/SFTP instead.


But if this is sensitive data, then how is it secured when not 'in transit' ?

 

[theheyes]

Can you not just create FPT accounts for this purpose, and then it wouldn't really matter if the credentials are visible, since they will be only able to access their own backups anyway?

 

[whitecrook]

Can you not just create FPT accounts for this purpose, and then it wouldn't really matter if the credentials are visible, since they will be only able to access their own backups anyway?

if you sniff a network when someone is usuing FTP, you can grab all their log in details for yourself., then anybody can access the backups.

 

[whitecrook]

What do you guys use?

We don't have any data that's not on our system that requires backup..

 

[theheyes]

I got the impression the OP was coming at it from the point of view of end users reading the scripts. I'd actually encrypt the backups themselves, but then again I'd be using VPN for this kind of thing.

 

[Mike UK]

I have started using Mozy backup (2GB free) for my laptops

Seems to work pretty well so far.