Archive for 3rd December 2007

Secure Remote Backups, Part II

As mentioned a couple weeks ago, I recently picked up a new piece of hardware, a 1TB MyBook World Edition II. It’s a network-attached external hard drive that turned out to be a full-fledged headless Linux box. I’ve been wanting to change my backup setup to go to it instead of the CygWin ssh server on my office desktop machine. That wouldn’t be too difficult since I’ve already got it running an ssh server, except for one thing: I need to ensure that the backups are properly encrypted, so that if someone breaks into the office and makes off with the hardware, they won’t also have access to all my personal and business files as well. Continue reading ‘Secure Remote Backups, Part II’ »