[143627] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: personal backup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey S. Young)
Sat Aug 13 05:19:57 2011
In-Reply-To: <m2liuxvqrr.wl%randy@psg.com>
From: "Jeffrey S. Young" <young@jsyoung.net>
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 19:19:20 +1000
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 13/08/2011, at 3:12 PM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
> charles skipped what i see as a highly critical question, personal
> backup.
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> my life is on a 13" macbook air, all data, mail back decades (i do not
> save all mail), etc. the whole drive is encrypted, my main reason for
> moving to lion.
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> i have two time machine drives, one at home and one i carry on the
> road. both are encrypted.
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> belt and braces, i also use unison to sync my laptop's home data to a
> server in colo. it goes to a freebsd geli, i.e. encrypted, partition.
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> all keys and other critical private data are in a text file on my laptop
> encrypted with gpg, which i use emacs crypt++ to access. that key file,
> a bunch of x.509 certs, ... are copied to an ironkey usb.
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> randy
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I found the "mobile account/portable home directory" feature in os x server
to be very useful for wife and kids (powerbooks). They get backed up and d=
on't
realize. If they crash a drive or if i upgrade a machine I just log them ba=
ck
in and resynch the machine. no more lost homework.
jy=
