[TriLUG] In a LUG a long time ago

[Jonathan Mainguy]

I have owncloud running in a VM, and then I just backup the entire VM's
disk once a day, and keep 7 days total off site.

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at austintek.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Nov 2014, Bill Farrow wrote:
>
>  We have discussed offering ownCloud and other services to our members,
>> but then we should probably get regular backups implemented first.
>>
>
> I have a machine on-line, through sharing with a friend. It's unreliable
> (the hardware is flakey), so I rsynce the whole machine to my home setup
> every hour. This isnt a big deal as the only thing that changes much is my
> mail files.
>
> What's involved in backups? rsync'ing the user's files to a machine
> off-site?
>
> Could you require users to handle their own backups?
>
>  I personally like the idea of hosting your own email and cloud storage
>> server in the cloud. With encrypted disks
>>
>
> how are you going to backup an encrypted disk?
>
>  and network protocols, you might even be able to secure it somewhat from
>> foreign or domestic spying. This might be a good sysadmin hack day activity
>> and follow-up talk.
>>
>
> well someone needs to come up with a spec that can be implemented, that's
> acceptable and people will pay for
>
> Joe
>
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