#31 Keeping Your Project Data Safe

Show Notes

This week’s episode is about some critical stuff: making sure that the digital data that we produce doesn’t get lost. So we’re talking back-ups, passwords, and encryption. It may not sound like as fun and exciting of a topic as other things we’ve discussed, but it’s monumentally important. And really, the technical bits of this can be a really interesting puzzle piece together. It’s rare that I come across two people who have the same exact setup when it comes to doing their back-ups… and even rarer that they use the same password and encryption tools as well (if they use encryption at all).

Here’s a quick run-down of stuff covered in this episode:

• RetroPie’s call for help with trademark law
• Cloudflare:
  • A detailed explanation of the parser bug that they had
  • Full list of sites that may be affected by the bug
• Crashplan - a back-up solution that you can host yourself, if you want
• rsnapshot - an rsync-based back-up solution that I use in-house
• Let’s Encypt - a means of providing secure encrypted traffic to websites (for free)
• LastPass - an online password vault service
• KeePassX - the password manager I use (coupled with owncloud. But you could use nextcloud or even Dropbox if you want to)
• Archwiki’s description of using LUKS for full disk encryption

And, as promised, here’s a link to see the rings I’ve been making out of wood for the last month or so.

That should do it. See you next week!

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