Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:40:02 +0100 From: Vladimir Botka <vlado@botka.homeunix.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup solution suggestions Message-ID: <20080115124002.06d14cfc@srv> In-Reply-To: <E6BCC509-6CC8-44F1-98C2-416920A52218@stromnet.se> References: <E6BCC509-6CC8-44F1-98C2-416920A52218@stromnet.se>
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Dne Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:52:56 +0100 Johan Str=C3=B6m <johan@stromnet.se> napsal(a): > Hello >=20 > I'm looking to invest in some new hardware for backup. probably some =20 > kind of NAS (a 4-disk 1U NAS or something in that size). The thing > is that I won't be the only one with access to this box, thus I > would like to secure my data. > What I would like is encryption both for the transfer to the box, > and encrypted on disk. The data on disk should not be readable by > anyone but me (ie the other user(s) of the box should not be able to > read it, at least not without a big effort). >=20 > So, I'm wondering what the best solution might be.. Tar'balling all =20 > my stuff and encrypt it with GPG or something and just dump it there =20 > with NFS would be the easiest solution, but maybe not the best. I've =20 > been thinking about running a GELI image on my box, and store that > on the NAS over NFS.. would that be doable/secure/stable? > Another idea would be to go with some regular 1U box running some =20 > FBSD, doing scp to the box and geli local on the box but that would =20 > require me to have the encryption keys on that box (which would be =20 > shared so thus no good idea). >=20 > Any other ideas? Being able to rsync to the backup storage instead > of just sending big encrypted tarballs would be very nice (and I > guess that would be possible with geli version) >=20 > Maybe not the perfect list for this, but it is somewhat freebsd =20 > specific and I'm sure some other ppl on the list have had simliar =20 > situations :) >=20 > -- > Johan Str=C3=B6m > Stromnet > johan@stromnet.se > http://www.stromnet.se/ >=20 Hello, As of the encryption on the transfer I use security/sfs to mount remote directory for backup and then rsync in the local. -vlado Vladimir Botka
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