Hi! On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 05:30:01PM +0200, Thomas Föcking wrote:
You're right, but I didn't ask how to backup ;-) but how to secure the linux system against hackers, crackers and evil people (crackers included) in the world.
Of course it's a problem when the computer catches fire. But what should I do?
Someone hacking into your computer and typing "rm -rf /" has a similar effect to your machine catching fire. If he/she chooses to run "wipe" on some of the more important files before, you can be _sure_ that you won't be able to recover these data. The same is true if someone installs a trojan. If you don't have a clean backup of your data, you never know for sure what has been changed.
The computer will be hosted at a outsourced provider. I can't go there and say hello, may I do my weekly backup now :-)
The webpages and databases itself are already backuped localy, but the system itself is not. I could only make a CD copy of the whole system, so I can restore the original system and then copy the backup of the webpages and databases to the sytem.
This sounds reasonable to me. Mondo is quite easy to use for such purposes. Best regards, Albert