I'm in the middle of backing up ~100gb's of a few home machines to CD-R (fair bit of digital photography, lots of old email, sentimental stuff, etc.) A long overdue project. Two copies of each CD - each file on the CD MD5-compared against the filesystem. Problem is, I don't want the second copy to leave my control.
Something I'm not seeing mentioned enough in this thread is: Encryption.
Going forward, I want to give a copy to a friend or relative. BUT... I want:
bootable - Linux preferably...something preconfig'ed so that I can go to my friends house, boot off the CD, and have all the tools right there to unencrypt/deal with the rest of the CD(s). If I have to work with Mother-in-Law's brain-damaged Win XP box, I'm willing to give up 20 meg or so off each CD to be assured of some tools.
encrypted - some of the passphrase is a core password I remember, and some of it is derived from something unique about each CD (I don't like the thought of ~50-odd cd's based on the same passphrase)
The notion of having personal data floating around in the open is less than comforting. For example: What if your friend/relative gets burglarized? Sure, you trust your friend, but by giving them clear files, your data is now subject to THEIR firewall, and THEIR physical security (in addition to yours). Seems like this leads to a GREATER chance that someone untrusted will get access to your files.
Has anyone combined a sort of bare-bones Linux boot, gpg/tar, ISO creating/burning, cataloging project? hmmm... Might be interesting to have critical stuff on a business-card sized CDR.
Let's assume that a year from now, there will be a GNU/HURD.
Why would anyone use it, when they could use:
* Linux
* *BSD
* Mac OS X
* etc etc
Are there portions of HURD which would be of interest as Linux kernel modules?
I'm not getting this. It was an interesting "coming soon" project to hear about in the early 90's.
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Something I'm not seeing mentioned enough in this thread is: Encryption.
Going forward, I want to give a copy to a friend or relative. BUT... I want:
The notion of having personal data floating around in the open is less than comforting. For example: What if your friend/relative gets burglarized? Sure, you trust your friend, but by giving them clear files, your data is now subject to THEIR firewall, and THEIR physical security (in addition to yours). Seems like this leads to a GREATER chance that someone untrusted will get access to your files.
Has anyone combined a sort of bare-bones Linux boot, gpg/tar, ISO creating/burning, cataloging project? hmmm... Might be interesting to have critical stuff on a business-card sized CDR.
Let's assume that a year from now, there will be a GNU/HURD. Why would anyone use it, when they could use: * Linux * *BSD * Mac OS X * etc etc Are there portions of HURD which would be of interest as Linux kernel modules? I'm not getting this. It was an interesting "coming soon" project to hear about in the early 90's.