Re: sudo security Was: Reporting missing package during install
On Di, 2013-12-10 at 23:54 +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
> Clever attacks manifest themselves a long time after the "infection" in order
> to poison backups. And backup media may fail when they are most needed.
> That's an effect of Murphy's law :).
Read about my backup strategy below. Only one time in my life I lost a
little bit, because I made a mistake, not because there was an attack. I
mounted a partition read/write instead of read only.
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> > On 10/dic/2013, at 21:54, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> >
> >> On Di, 2013-12-10 at 17:56 +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
> >> I would not trust backups as an absolute safety
> >
> > You don't trust backups? Why?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ralf
> >
> > PS: I make complete backups, IOW I backup everything, don't sync, but
> > make complete new backups nearly daily. At the end of a month I delete
> > some of the backups done in that month, but at least keep one for that
> > month for around the next 365 days. The backups are not done to a drive
> > that is fix connected to the computer, but to a special external backup
> > drive. From time to time I copy a backup to two internal drives and data
> > to other media such as DVDs.
> >
> > Nothing is 100% safe, but nothing is more safe than with regularity
> > backup the install and data.
> >
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