Re: [Fed-Talk] TimeMachine use in Fed space... opinions?
Re: [Fed-Talk] TimeMachine use in Fed space... opinions?
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] TimeMachine use in Fed space... opinions?
- From: "Timothy J. Miller" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 10:38:27 -0600
Taylor Armstrong wrote:
As part of our normal 10.5 build, we have disabled TimeMachine, pushing
users towards backing up to our SAN (and thus to tape) instead. Most of
the incentive for this was the lack of security offered by TimeMachine,
since the data on the external drive is readable by anyone with access
to the drive itself. (no OD environment to host the backups).
Turn on FileVault, and TM backs up the encrypted sparseimage of the home
directory at user logout. The rest of the backup is still readable, but
generally that's less of a problem.
We have a couple of users asking us to reconsider, so I'm curious what
other .gov agencies are using. I use, and enjoy TimeMachine at home,
but it doesn't seem like a best-practice to use it in an enterprise
environment when we have more secure methods. The main justification
being put forward is that it would simplify COOP requirements.
If you have an existing workstation backup solution and it supports OS
X, I would say use it. There's no need for parallel systems.
-- Tim
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