I read in the manual that backups on the local network are unencrypted - is there a way to force it to encrypt the data stream or at least perform client side encryption prior to sending? Although the chance of someone intercepting the data is relatively small, there is some data that we wouldn’t want getting stolen - UrBackup looks really good except for this little part of no local network encryption…
You can start UrBackup in “internet only mode” and use the clients via the “internet” connection feature, where you can enable encryption.
To do that either put UrBackup in its own sub-network where it cannot find the clients and properly forward the configured internet port, filter the ports via iptables or add --internet_only_mode true to either the client’s or the server’s args.txt.
You’ll loose the client discovery. You can let it run for a while with local networking enabled till it has distributed the authentication keys and the server name, though.