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Re: question about storage



On 02/19/2011 11:32 AM, David Christensen wrote:
On 02/18/2011 10:52 PM, Jim Green wrote:
I think I'll probably do this,
4x2T drive in desktop and use a external closure for backup(because I
am using mirroring, disk failure should be ok though). and I'll be
using soft raid to avoid hardware raid card.

Have you thought about security? If your database contains
confidential, personal, etc., information, it's easy to encrypt your
partitions with dm-crypt:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dm-crypt


encfs is a lot simpler.

--
"The normal condition of mankind is tyranny and misery."
Milton Friedman


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