Hello, Clinton Ebadi wrote: > Letting a peson who does not have root on hcoop copy our backups to > his machine? I dunno... think about email and stuff. I trust people > with root on Fyodor not to read my files, but I don't like the idea of > transfering files like that onto a machine that we do not directly > control. > > I'm not any sort of official sysadmin so ignore me as necessary, but, I had this same misgiving when I first read about the proposed off-site backups.
The contents of a backup should be encrypted with a key that only a handful of trusted people would have (perhaps members of the board) and that the off-site maintainer would not have. This would easily be done to a tarball or, and maybe this is more complicated and taxing system-wise, per file, using gnugpg. Ryan _______________________________________________ HCoop-SysAdmin mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-sysadmin
