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Re: write only storage.



I use to backup my iPhone's photo library using a stfp connection (all in the same directory in my PC). Thus, I can chattr +i the only directory needed and nobody can remove. 

I cannot understand why chattr does not achieve you.

Toni Mas
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El dimarts, 21 de setembre 2021 a les 17:53, Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> va escriure:

> I would like to have some WORM memory for my backups. At the moment
> 

> they're copied to an archive machine using a chrooted unprivileged user
> 

> and then moved via a cron job so that that user cannot delete them
> 

> (other than during a short window).
> 

> My though was to use a raspberry-pi4 to provide a USB mass storage
> 

> device that is modified to not permit deleting. If the pi4 is not
> 

> accessible via the network then other than bugs in the mass storage API
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> it should be impossible to delete things without physical access to the
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> pi.
> 

> Before I start reinventing the wheel, does anyone know of anything
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> similar to this already in existence?
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> Things like chattr don't achieve what I want as root can still override
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> that. I'm looking for something that requires physical access to delete.

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