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0 pointsDKnoll8y ago0 comments

If a VPS provider didn't manage to have even an offline backup of their own website they should dissolve the company.

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If it was an ex-admin he might have deleted all the backups also. But they should be able to tell this publicly, otherwise it's similar to recent case where the newbie deleted the prod DB without any backup.

rsync8y ago

"If it was an ex-admin he might have deleted all the backups also."

One of the very neat things about rsync.net is that your account is on a ZFS platform and you have snapshots enabled by default and the snapshots are totally immutable.

Which means that if you back up your VPS (or your VPS company) to an rsync.net account and someone owns you and owns your rsync.net credentials, the worst they can do is delete the very latest backup ... the snapshots cannot be altered.

Just saying.

rmwaite8y ago

So you're telling me if I have a git server (for example) on rsync.net and a newbie developer accidentally commits sensitive credentials there's no way to remove them from the git database? That's very troubling.

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_ph_8y ago

The parent poster talked about an offline backup. That is the big idea of offline (and even better, offsite) backups, that you cannot delete or destroy them from a computer, just by destroying the physical media.

shif8y ago

An ex admin would probably have access to the physical backups too, this could have been done before he left the company.

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foepys8y ago

Isn't this the time where you put stuff on tape and store it somewhere outside of physical reach? Is tape even used anymore?

wlesieutre8y ago

Yep, I'm not involved at all but I believe my workplace does its offsite backups on tape with a service like Iron Mountain http://www.ironmountain.com/Services/Data-Management/Tape-Va...

tyingq8y ago

A patient disgruntled admin would have altered the backups to write garbage to the tapes for however long the rotation cycle is, then kicked off the production melee.

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