I’ve been using BackupPC for the last year to securely backup servers to a remote location over Rsync and SSH, however I recently stumbled across an issue with backing up the SVN root directory on an SVN server.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/19/ukgov_uber_database/ has details of a possible “data silo” that contains all of our data.
This blog-post is meant to be a list of potential sites that will enable british citizens to escape the police state that we are rapidly becoming by moving their data outside teritorial waters.
For those of you who honestly believe “those who have nothing to hide have nothing to fear”, please add a comment listing your bank account and PIN numbers, full address and contact details including every email address, mobile phone and landline number that you have and details of where you work. If you could also send me a copy of your front door key so I can come and visit you and watch your TV or sleep in your bed whenever I want, that would also be good. If you’re not going to do this, then you’ve got something to hide, haven’t you???
Please add to the list of datacentres using the comments section below. I’ll turn this into a proper database at somepoint (and publish the schema here for openess!) and link to it from here.
PF.
Please note these are more notes for me than a finished write-up, however I hope to document this on the Nagios WIKI in due course…
“Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support
it for the rest of your life”. (Michael Sinz)
Someone asked on the wdvl-talk email list (lists.wdvl.com) about securing your server to process sensitive information.
I’m not an expert by any means, however I thought I’d post my advice here in case anyone else wants it. Read the rest of this entry »