Re: write only storage.

2021-10-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Write only storage - DVD-R or equivalent Blu-Ray - but make sure to end the >> session. Deletion - feed through a paper shredder. > I already do that but currently that means I have roughly one month of > backups on network accessible storage before I write to disc. Rather

Re: write only storage.

2021-09-30 Thread Leandro neto
: write only storage. De: mst...@debian.org Enviado em: 21 de setembro de 2021 17:08 Para: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 06:37:41PM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: >A ransomware attack that exploits a zero day ssh vulnerability for >example wouldn't be a complete disaste

Re: write only storage.

2021-09-22 Thread David Christensen
On 9/22/21 1:04 AM, Tim Woodall wrote: On Tue, 21 Sep 2021, David Christensen wrote: On 9/21/21 8:53 AM, Tim Woodall wrote: I would like to have some WORM memory for my backups. Have you considered snapshots -- e.g. btrfs, LVM, or ZFS? I don't see how they help me - I am already using [L

Re: write only storage.

2021-09-22 Thread Marco Möller
On 21.09.21 19:15, Marco Möller wrote: On 21.09.21 17:53, Tim Woodall wrote: 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

Re: write only storage.

2021-09-22 Thread Tim Woodall
Thank you very much! It might be a little while before I get time to experiment properly with this but I've saved this email for a free weekend. Tim. On Wed, 22 Sep 2021, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Tim Woodall wrote: If I wrote one session per day that would be c 30 sessions per disc. This

Re: write only storage.

2021-09-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Tim Woodall wrote: > If I wrote one session per day that would be c 30 sessions per disc. This should be doable on any BD-R capable drive. > I'd also need to find a drive > where I can verify what has been written without it ejecting the disk > first (or at least be able to reload the disk

Re: write only storage.

2021-09-22 Thread Tim Woodall
On Tue, 21 Sep 2021, David Christensen wrote: On 9/21/21 8:53 AM, Tim Woodall wrote: 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 (ot

Re: write only storage.

2021-09-21 Thread David Christensen
On 9/21/21 8:53 AM, Tim Woodall wrote: 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

Re: Write *once* storage (was Re: write only storage)

2021-09-21 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
>>(other than during a short window). > > Sorry to butt in, but I used to be a filesystem developer in a > previous life, working on archive storage for things like medical and > financial data. Pet peeve: > > WORM is Write *Once* , not Write *Only* > > "Write only&

Re: write only storage.

2021-09-21 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 06:37:41PM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: A ransomware attack that exploits a zero day ssh vulnerability for example wouldn't be a complete disaster - this is only home usage - but it seems fairly trivial to create a 'worm' usb device using a pi. I haven't tested yet but with a

Re: write only storage.

2021-09-21 Thread Linux-Fan
Marco Möller writes: On 21.09.21 17:53, Tim Woodall wrote: 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 wi

Unclosed DVD-R or BD-R sessions ? was: Re: write only storage.

2021-09-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Write only storage - DVD-R or equivalent Blu-Ray - > but make sure to end the session. Do you have BD-R or DVD-R with unclosed sessions ? (... and how come ? Burn programs normally close their sessions.) If so, then i would be interested in the SCSI lo

Re: write only storage.

2021-09-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > Write only storage - DVD-R or equivalent Blu-Ray Tim Woodall wrote: > I already do that but currently that means I have roughly one month of > backups on network accessible storage before I write to disc. I do a daily incremental backup on BD-R (plus

Re: write only storage.

2021-09-21 Thread Tim Woodall
On Tue, 21 Sep 2021, Marco M?ller wrote: On 21.09.21 17:53, Tim Woodall wrote: 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 th

Re: write only storage.

2021-09-21 Thread Tim Woodall
On Tue, 21 Sep 2021, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Write only storage - DVD-R or equivalent Blu-Ray - but make sure to end the session. Deletion - feed through a paper shredder. I already do that but currently that means I have roughly one month of backups on network accessible storage before I

Re: Write *once* storage (was Re: write only storage)

2021-09-21 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 9/21/21 10:21 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: . . . WORM is Write *Once* , not Write *Only* "Write only" storage is easy and fast - just throw things at /dev/null and they can never be altered (or read back). Quite. Or to paraphrase something I said, that actually got publish

Re: write only storage.

2021-09-21 Thread Marco Möller
On 21.09.21 17:53, Tim Woodall wrote: 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 t

Write *once* storage (was Re: write only storage)

2021-09-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
to butt in, but I used to be a filesystem developer in a previous life, working on archive storage for things like medical and financial data. Pet peeve: WORM is Write *Once* , not Write *Only* "Write only" storage is easy and fast - just throw things at /dev/null and they can nev

Re: write only storage.

2021-09-21 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
> > > it should be impossible to delete things without physical access to the > > > > > > > > pi. > > > > > > > > Before I start reinventing the wheel, does anyone know of anything > > > > > > > > similar to this alread

Re: write only storage.

2021-09-21 Thread Michael Stone
Well, chattr -i turns that off On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 04:29:07PM +, Toni Mas Soler wrote: 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

Re: write only storage.

2021-09-21 Thread Toni Mas Soler
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 GPG 3F42A21D84D7E950 Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.

write only storage.

2021-09-21 Thread Tim Woodall
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