It is sad how many data recovery posts I see
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satanmat@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Would that be sufficient
No.
3-2-1
Three copies; your working copy, and a cloud copy, and (as an example) on and external HD that you keep at a friend’s house….
On two separate media… so yes cloud can cover that
One off site. So yeah cloud covers that.
Encryption on your off site copies. Yeah I don’t care if they are Linux ISOs or your grandmas recipes. ENCRYPTED
Thanks for coming to my TED talk
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
satanmat@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yep. And even I did it in my post. Notice what is missing?
Test your backups!
thayer@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
And I would argue that all data should be encrypted now, even the working copy. If you have data that’s worth backing up, you probably don’t want it in the hands of criminals or weirdos either.
satanmat@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Agreed… Yes, and… specific to backups all the encryption….
Your production stuff, yes should be as well
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 months ago
It’s so easy to set up, just tick a box during os install most times. Then if you do rcline just use an encrypt on top of your remote, make sure your conf is backed up, and you’re golden
peregus@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If you tick the encryption box during install, you will have to enter the decrypt password at every boot and that means that if the power goes out for long enough (UPS doesn’t keep the server up for hours), I (and my family) will not have access to the self hosted stuff until I’ll be home and this is why I encrypt only the data partition and not the boot one.
bluespin@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You can decrypt via ssh at boot. I used dropbear to accomplish that on my machine