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> where do you store and backup your personal data A RAID array of physical drives in a local PC. > How do you run your backups? rsnapshot (https://rsnapshot
by pwg 4y ago
> where do you store and backup your personal data
A RAID array of physical drives in a local PC.
> How do you run your backups?
rsnapshot (https://rsnapshot.org/ https://rsnapshot.org/) driven from cron.
> How do you manage encryption keys, etc?
Stored in files on plural disks plus a printed to paper backup.
> What considerations drove your solution?
Must be 100% under my control -- "someone else's disks" must not ever be the primary backup medium.
- throwaway894345 4y agoGreat answers! What do you think about secondary remote backups in case of fire/flood/etc?
- pwg 4y agoAcceptable, provided they are encrypted. I'm not in a flood zone myself, so floods have a very remote risk of occurring. Fire is always a possibility, albeit also low on the risk scale. Depending upon your risk tolerance mitigating 'fire risk' could involve backup to a cloud service (#), or backing up to a portable disk that is swapped for another at a secondary location on some periodic basis. (#) the /necessity/ of needing 'off-site' for mitigating fire risk means one may have no choice but to utilize 'other people's disks' to obtain the 'off-site' aspect. You do have to make sure you can recover the encryption keys for the 'off-site' data in the event of the need to recover using the off-site data, so that adds some complexity to 'key management' (i.e., if all your copies of the keys go up in the fire, the off-site data may as well not exist).
- mekster 4y agoWhy does it matter if your data is on someone else's disk if they're encrypted before sending? Someone else's disks are far better managed than your disks and aren't susceptible to any local accidents.