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[Discuss] Revisiting VMWare ESX backup options
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- From: greg at freephile.com (Greg Rundlett (freephile))
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 13:09:20 -0500
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On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) <blu at nedharvey.com> wrote: > > From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org [mailto:discuss- > > bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Gillen > > > > Not everyone can have a bank vault to put their computers in. > > Even fewer can put their backup media into a locked vault which is inside > their secure server closet and then transported, still locked to the bank > vault, which is then locked during the transport into the safe box. > > Which is a silly way of stating the obvious: Even if you have physically > secure locations, you still have to unsecurely transport your media to > those locations. > > And a zillion other pointless scenarios, that are pointless to get into. > > I'll mention one aspect that wasn't mentioned thus far, and basically makes this discussion moot: Insurance underwriters are now requiring that customers encrypt backups. So, if you want business insurance (general liability, I'm not even talking about a "data breach" policy), then you will encrypt your backups. Greg Rundlett http://eQuality-Tech.com <http://equality-tech.com/> http://freephile.org
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