[clue-tech] "rewindable" drive?

[mike havlicek]

How much storage space are you talking about? It seems to me that the
solution would involve the threshold of dataloss tolerence on the master (which we assume at some point will be compromised), resource necessary to store the snapshots and diffing between a known last good state and newly suspect snapshot. It seems that the time between snapshots, time for creating an image, and time for discovering suspicious diffs would be in a delicate balance ... or have I totally missed what the underlying problem is? (I don't think I missed that the original question was ... Does there exist a product that that solves your problem out of the box ...) Got me to thinking about a poor man's rig ... one of my favorite hobbies:) 

-Mike 


--- On Thu, 11/20/08, David L. Willson <DLWillson at TheGeek.NU> wrote:

> From: David L. Willson <DLWillson at TheGeek.NU>
> Subject: Re: [clue-tech] "rewindable" drive?
> To: khellman at mcprogramming.com, "CLUE tech" <clue-tech at cluedenver.org>
> Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008, 12:15 PM
> Yes.  I should have said so to begin with.  The app is
> inherited, large, and complex.  We (the new dev team, not me
> personally) have looked it over, edited and blessed it, but
> we (me personally) are still full of rage, vitriol, and
> distrust, and rage and vitriol.  So we (me personally again)
> want an "insurance policy" for the unlikely case
> where the old and new devil-ope-ers missed something and
> some person-of-ethical-flexibility takes advantage thereof.
> 
> I want to be able to take an image, roll the system drive
> back to it's uncracked state, and carefully re-import
> the latest data from the moment when we shut the server
> down.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Keith Hellman"
> <khellman at mcprogramming.com>
> To: "CLUE tech" <clue-tech at cluedenver.org>
> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 11:55:46 AM GMT -07:00
> US/Canada Mountain
> Subject: Re: [clue-tech] "rewindable" drive?
> 
> Has the idea of fixing the fundamental security holes and
> compromise
> vectors been considered?  Just a thought...
> 
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