On Feb 4, 2009, at 7:58 PM, Profile showed healthy paranoia:
I am always anxious to hear Lee's discussions on how to protect our computers from prying eyes and identify theft. I also am paranoid about backing up everything and have three different backup systems.
You asked for it, so here it is. I'm pretty careful about such things.In my office, the stuff I fret about losing is backed up to a departmental server which in turn is backed up to tape every evening.
At home, most of my personal stuff is stored in my keychain and Yojimbo. These are encrypted and backed up to my iDisk more or less continuously. Financial records are there also--password protected with encryption from Moneydance.
I use IMAPs exclusively for mail, so none of it is stored locally. I figure the ISPs back up their stuff pretty well and this saves me the trouble of doing it. This has the added bonus that all my mail is accessible wherever I go from whatever machine I happen to be using.
Data is backed up to a nice little LaCie network drive that I picked up really cheaply a while back when they were discontinuing the older models. The little bit that I really can't stand to be without for a few days is also mirrored on the iDisk. (The iDisk is also a great place to put files that might be worked on in more than one place because the cloud is everywhere.)
Here is another potential problem that I am wondering if there is a solution. Since I have so many firewire drives hanging off my main computer and one firewire drive on each of the other computers it would really be easy for someone to simply unplug one and walk off.
TrueCrypt. It works fine with SuperDuper, but you have to jump through some hoops to get it working with Time Machine.
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