When and why to deprecate filesystems

Posted Mar 8, 2022 17:11 UTC (Tue) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75)
In reply to: When and why to deprecate filesystems by Wol
Parent article: When and why to deprecate filesystems

Offsite? Where? :-) For a home system that could be a problem (unless I put a bare drive in the garage...)

If you're limiting yourself to critical files- or if you're willing to spend more- you could back up to the cloud. It's definitely offsite, and it has its own layers of protection. If you're serious, you'd want some solution that would let you encrypt your files locally, so anyone who gets a copy of your cloud files won't be able to read all your secrets. Of course you probably want that for any off-site backup.

When and why to deprecate filesystems

Posted Mar 8, 2022 17:21 UTC (Tue) by geert (subscriber, #98403) [Link] (1 responses)

Yep, dropping off at relatives LUKS-encrypted USB hard drives containing Amanda vtapes.

When and why to deprecate filesystems

Posted Mar 8, 2022 17:36 UTC (Tue) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75) [Link]

I keep an off-site backup in a locked desk drawer at work, but I still keep that encrypted. Transparent encryption is easy enough that it's silly not to use it on any USB hard drive whose contents you care at all about keeping secret.