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: Allan Marcus <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:18:52 -0600
One thing I would worry about is a classified contamination. Assuming
this is an issue for you, you probably have a process in place to deal
with such an event with your central back-up, but now you would need
to deal with it with decentralized back-ups.
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Thanks,
Allan Marcus
505-667-5666
On Mar 4, 2009, at 9:07 AM, Taylor Armstrong wrote:
Good morning all,
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).
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.
Thoughts?
thanks,
Taylor Armstrong
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