Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 19 Dec 2023 12:21:35 -0700
>Hi,
>
>I have been using the AWS S3 PHP SDK to backup my web content for
>maybe 12 years. I'm revisiting it.
>
>I'm thinking that it might be more secure to create a backup user for
>just this process. The credentials would be stored in the backup
>user's home directory, the script would be owned by the backup user,
>and the cron would be that backup user's cron.
>
>Am I on the right path and is there something else I should be looking
>at?
Hi Keith,
I'm not quite sure what your preceding two paragraphs mean, but I have
a home-brew backup script that backs my box up to a USB3 interfaced
spinning rust drive. I have several such drives, some of which are in a
bank vault at any given time.
This system has been working well for me.
HTH,
SteveT
Steve Litt
Autumn 2023 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century
http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21
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