Problems with home server

[Bryan O'Neal]

I have a lot of customer data on my file server. I am unwilling to
take responsibility if my box is stolen. I really like whole disk
encryption.

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Technomage <technomage.hawke at gmail.com> wrote:
> um ouch, I missed this part! that's going to complicate matters enormously.
> if you can tar stuff off onto an external USB/firewire drive, I'd highly
> recommend that you do it now!
>
> otherwise, your problems will multiply harshly. once done, wipe/reinstall
> and place your backed up data in place.
>
> and yeah, whole disc encryption is really unnecessary unless you happen to
> be working for a government agency or some private firm that insists on
> "total security"I tend to encrypt /home and the swap partitions here. its
> not much of a performance hit and my data is "reasonably safe".
>
> On 7/26/10 12:01 PM, Matt Graham wrote:
>>
>> From: "Bryan O'Neal"<Bryan.ONeal at TheONealAndAssociates.com>
>>
>>>
>>> And yes the drive is encrypted using the red hat / fedora standard
>>> encryption.
>>>
>>
>> When whole-disk encryption goes wrong, it's a total PITA to fix AFAICT.
>>  I'd
>> put the really sensitive data somewhere like /home or /data , and just
>> encrypt
>> that partition or LV.  That way, when it all goes pear-shaped, you have a
>> better chance of the stuff in /, /usr, and so forth still being usable.
>>  But I
>> don't need "complete paranoiac"-level security for most of my stuff....
>>
>>
>
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