[Gllug] Secure filing system?

[Christian Smith]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 07:04:39PM +0000, Christopher Hunter wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 14:15 +0000, Jason Clifford wrote:
> 
> > Or that you lacked the imagination to suggest that the "off site" back
> > ups be held onsite - just at a separate "onsite" that is part of the
> > same local government organisation. That way you could have ensured data
> > protection (the first part of which is still actually having the data in
> > the event of an incident) while also keeping the idiots who thought they
> > were in charge of such policies content in their stupidity.
> > 
> 
> Jason - you wildly underestimate the fundamental, blinkered stupidity of
> most of the Civil Servants.  I have been told that even file duplication
> isn't allowed, so RAID isn't permitted (someone could steal a disk!).
> These morons are the ones responsible for the parlous state of this
> country......  
> 


How are backups provisioned at all? That is file duplication by definition.

Presumably you can sell them the idea of data deduplication to compensate :)

Christian
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