Secure wiping your harddisk
This is a little FAQ about securely wiping your harddisk. Why is deleting the files not enough ( e.g. rm -rf *) Because this removes only the meta-data to find the data, but the data itself is still there. It could be …
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Backup & Security
Backups that survive disasters, encryption and hardening.
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Securing ejabberd on Debian Wheezy (7.0) : Bind epmd to localhost (127.0.0.1)
Ejabberd is a nice and (in theory) easy to setup jabber-server. However during setup I came across some WTF’s, I want to share. What is empd? epmd is a small name server used by Erlang programs when establishing …
Encrypted off-site backup with ecryptfs
I was looking for a method to backup my data encrypted. Of course there exist plenty of possibilities, but most of them either encrypt a container or complete partition or seemed to be complicated to setup. I did not …
Installing backup2l on CentOS
Installation http://backup2l.sourceforge.net/ rpm für CentOS Hier mein RPM für CentOS, es kopiert das backup2l binary nach /usr/bin/ und installiert ein Beispiel-Configfile nach /etc/backup2l.conf. Es richtet jedoch …
Limit Bacula Network Usage with trickle
bacula is a great backupsoftware, but sometimes the backup mustn’t use all the available bandwith. bacula itself has no speed limitations built in, but it is easy, to use trickle to accomplish this. I use trickle only on …
backup2l driver for encrypted backups with mcrypt
This backup2l driver encrypts and decrypts backups on the fly with a single password-key found in the file /backup_key/backup_key.txt. Of course you should save the file in some other space or rembember it, because if …