I assumed some level of competence in setting up storage (local or cloud) with at-rest encryption - while also encrypting the backup.
Secure: Restic uses cryptography to guarantee confidentiality and integrity of your data. The location where the backup data is stored is assumed to be an untrusted environment (e.g. a shared space where others like system administrators are able to access your backups). Restic is built to secure your data<https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/100_references.html#design> against such attackers, by encrypting it with AES-256 in counter mode and authenticating it using Poly1305-AES. My requirements dictated a mobility-enabled solution. Cloud fits that bill perfectly - for me. But, I've also spent the last 6-years securing large-scale enterprise-cloud in one form or another. 😉 It's all about what works for the user. Kindest Regards, --Tim --- Timothy M. Lyons, CISSP ly...@geekcq.com +1-978-309-9595 This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual(s) named. It may also be privileged or otherwise protected by work product immunity or other legal rules. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. ________________________________ From: Discuss <discuss-bounces+lyons=geekcq....@blu.org> on behalf of Rich Pieri <richard.pi...@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2019 10:37 To: discuss@blu.org <discuss@blu.org> Subject: Re: [Discuss] full disk backups On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 14:00:52 +0000 Timothy Lyons <ly...@geekcq.com> wrote: > Sorry if I'm jumping into this late but I'd be remiss if I didn't > throw restic into the mix. Simple, SECURE and flexible backups with > multiple target options (local, cloud, etc). Fully configurable as Sorry... but... the terms "backup", "secure" and "cloud" do not belong in the same sentence. If it's in a public cloud then it can be compromised by a third party bad actor. Witness the Code Spaces breach. Not saying you shouldn't use public cloud storage; saying you should be cautious in your trust of it. On the subject of Clonezilla: it's not a backup tool. It's an imaging tool. It can be used as part of a backup system: the physical volume analogue to copying a virtual machine's vdisk files to other storage. Using it this way is cumbersome on Linux systems where realistically the only thing that needs a low-level copy is the boot block of the boot device and that only once. It would be more useful on a dual-boot Windows/Linux machine using Clonezilla command line to clone the Windows system volumes. -- Rich Pieri _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
