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How secure is my local backup drive with ssfhs? by 712 in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[-] 712@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 7 hours ago

Wow, I just used this tutorial. rsync is amazing, and this actually makes everything so much easier. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

How secure is my local backup drive with ssfhs? by 712 in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[-] 712@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 8 hours ago

The only reason is that I am a noob 😄 Thanks, I will take at look at this!

How secure is my local backup drive with ssfhs? by 712 in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[-] 712@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 hours ago

keep the key safe

This might be a dumb question, but can I assume the keys are safe in the standard .ssh directory on Linux? Is there anything I should explicitly do to secure the private key?

How secure is my local backup drive with ssfhs? by 712 in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[-] 712@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 hours ago

Thank you. For now, I won't try to connect to the server from the internet. I want to learn more about VPNs before I try anything like this. I am very paranoid when it comes to security, so I don't want to risk anything... 😄

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How secure is my local backup drive with ssfhs? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 9 hours ago by 712@discuss.tchncs.de to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hello everyone.

I have been interested in starting to self-host, and I have just been able to set up the first useful thing for myself (apart from a PiHole that I have running).

Since I am very afraid of making security mistakes, I would like to get feedback from you if my setup is secure or not.

The simple use case: I want to be able to back up files from my main computer to a hard disk, without having the hard disk attached to my main computer.

The setup:

A Raspberry Pi 4 running Raspberry Pi OS Lite (64-bit).
The Raspberry Pi can only be accessed via ed25519 key.
I configured a firewall on the Raspberry Pi with ufw to allow only traffic from the local subnet.
I then use sshfs to mount the hard disk connected with the Raspberry Pi to my main computer.
I plan to use rsync to back up my files.

Now I need your help: how secure is this setup? Did I make any major mistake? Is there something I could do better?

I'd be happy to get some feedback... 🙂

Finally got rid of it by 712 in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

[-] 712@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago

I’m afraid it peaked at Feliz Navidad