In an effort to fulfill an offsite backup requirement I had the idea to place a password protected tar archive onto one or more of our users laptops. The laptops are taken home each night and it woul
Very bad idea. Many of the worst privacy issues in the past several years have resulted from theft of a laptop that contained confidential files. If you encrypt the copy with a very strong passphrase
Author: Arnold Krille <arnold AT arnoldarts DOT de>
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:07:31 +0100
Replace that "password protected" by "gpg encrypted" and you get a good idea. A very good idea is when the private key is only on a secure machine in the admins possesion (and on an encrypted stick a
Certainly the security is of concern and yes we would encrypt it with a password. But to me it seems like a very nice way to get a backup offsite. What would have happened if I lost an Amanda tape ba
Yes security will be addressed. But idea of transporting the archive offsite with a laptop that goes home each day is good I think. -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most co
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:34:57 -0600
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Joe Konecny <jkonecny AT rmtohio DOT com> wrote: Most of the 'bad idea' part is who is responsible if the content is stolen. As long as the content owner/company is O
Author: Arnold Krille <arnold AT arnoldarts DOT de>
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:04:56 +0100
Taking the "tape" home is basically your off-site-storage. So, yes, thats a very good idea. Our customers are told to do the same with their tapes (some even follow this advice). But if its your resp
Author: "transeurasia on horseback" <majacobs AT xs4all DOT nl>
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:12:06 +0100
Use torrent as cliet/server. Clients will quickly share the torrent-file uploaded routinely by the server -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learnin