I use this as my NAS server: <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16859107052">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16859107052</a><br><br>naslite is cheap, freenas is free. <br><br>Dedicated NAS purpose built:<br>
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<br>Or just build a home machine. <br><br>What are you doing that you get a lot of virus's that will affect both windows and linux? If your that paranoid, run systems off of optic disc's. or read only mode. <br><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Brian MacLeod <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nym.bnm@gmail.com" target="_blank">nym.bnm@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE)<br>
<<a href="mailto:atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com">atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
</div><div class="im">> The main concern I've always had about having backup media attached all the time is that, if a virus got into the machine, it could attack and wipe out the backup drive.<br>
<br>
<br>
</div>Always a possibility unless clients have absolutely NO write<br>
privileges. That means adding new files, writing to old, or deletions.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
<br>
> So, I need to know how to make a virus proof nas, such that at least one partition on the device is accessible only to the backup software for write mode. I don't care if everything can read the backup file, but I only want the backup software to be able to add new files, write to them, or delete them.<br>
<br>
<br>
</div>If it is writeable by the client, it will never be virus proof. This<br>
is part of the reason the massive backup infrastructure that I<br>
maintain for the compute clusters at work don't work this way. The<br>
clients have no write capability to the backup servers. Ever. The<br>
backup servers call the storage units and get copies of stuff instead.<br>
It still means I might be backing up a virus, but that virus on the<br>
client will NOT destroy client backups.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
<br>
> I need something that can run while Windows 7 is running and backup using the volume shadow copy service. I also need it to be able to back up the ext4 Ubuntu partition on the PC's HDD, either by reading the native file system or by using a sector by sector approach. This way, I can just let the backups run periodically on their own and not worry about malware affecting the backup.<br>
<br>
<br>
</div>Well, can't help you with that then, because I do do Windows anymore,<br>
so I'm not exactly sure I know what that shadow copy stuff is. But I<br>
have a feeling it doesn't enable what I described above about a backup<br>
server initiating the work. And frankly, I'd probably would rather<br>
remain ignorant of those facts because my recent family/holiday time<br>
was so much more enjoyable since I could honestly I don't know how to<br>
run these versions of Windows. I probably could grasp it, but I like<br>
being stupid in this case.<br>
<br>
The Ubuntu thing -- piece of cake. First ideas are LVM snapshots<br>
which your backup machine calls in to get, or, backup machine uses LVM<br>
to create daily snapshots of itself after a daily rsync of important<br>
filesystems.<br>
<br>
Oh, and make the backup machine be only a backup machine. No<br>
browsing, no tasking of other things that could get it in trouble. I<br>
don't what other safe guards you have for browsing experience. Just<br>
don't do it.<br>
<br>
That's the only way you get to "virus proof" (and even then it still<br>
isn't). That, or you have machine that never talks to another machine.<br>
But that's not exactly useful in this case.<br>
<br>
bnm<br>
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