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On Friday 14 Sep 2007, Wil Reichert wrote: |
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> I'm assuming since you're asking this question your firewall is locked down |
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> pretty tight. |
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Not particularly, but it seems silly to take needless risks. It has shorewall |
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to manage iptables, but I still let it run squid, ntpd, dnsmasq and a few |
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other little goodies. I suppose I rely on shorewall to keep me safe. |
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> That said, backing up your personal data to it seems like a not very good |
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> idea. Were you planning on encrypting it or something? |
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I see what you mean, but really the main use of the backup would be to recover |
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a working system to a damaged box (I can be just as clumsy in admin as anyone |
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else), rather than spending a week or more rebuilding it from source. User |
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data could perhaps be backed up elsewhere - I have a handy little USB disk |
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that would do nicely. |
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> Who uses your internal network seems to be the variable here. Is this at |
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> work or home? |
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The clue was in "my tiny LAN" which means my own :-) |
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> Is there a wireless router thrown in there somewhere? |
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The one wireless link is between the laptop and an access point; the WAP is |
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connected to an Ethernet switch which lives between the workstation and the |
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gateway. Why do you ask? |
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Rgds |
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Peter. |
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Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 |
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