Re: Backups & Crashplan

["Kevin A. McGrail" <ke...@mcgrail.com>]

On 5/31/2017 2:52 PM, Dave Jones wrote:
> On 05/30/2017 05:44 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
>>
>>> We should add /etc and /var/www and exclude 
>>> /usr/local/spamassassin/backups since it's so large.
>> Added/excluded as suggested. Thanks very much for the feedback
>
> Do we need to setup crashplan to run under supervisord and have monit 
> email the sysadmins if it stops running again?
Need? No, CP alerts me if it doesn't run a backup for a few days.  I 
don't know why it stopped though...
> Yes. They look fine.  I can create the recovery gpg key if you want me 
> to then get it over to the infra team for long-term storage.  Then we 
> would need to resign everything with it plus the current sysadmins' keys. 
Yes, this would be good for June 14th when I can give the GPG key 
personally to Greg.

Re: Backups & Crashplan

["Kevin A. McGrail" <ke...@mcgrail.com>]

On 6/1/2017 9:30 AM, Dave Jones wrote:
> Where should I put the private key then?  If you are going to 
> personally see Greg, then it may make more sense for you to generate 
> it offline so the private key is not checked into SVN or emailed from 
> me to you. 
Sorry, I wasn't clear.  In my head, I had been thinking about giving him 
just the passphrase out of band.

If you generate a key pair with a ridiculously strong passphrase which 
you can relay over the phone, we can then email the private, passphrase 
protected key pair to Greg.  I'll follow-up with the passphrase in 
person.  Then once you and I confirm we have the private key off the 
server and safely onto our own network, we are safe enough I believe.

Then we should only need the public key in our key rings to encrypt it 
to that sysadmins@ account.

This matched what Greg discussed a week or 3 ago.

Regards,
KAM

Re: Backups & Crashplan

[Dave Jones <da...@apache.org>]

On 06/01/2017 08:20 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
> On 5/31/2017 2:52 PM, Dave Jones wrote:
>> On 05/30/2017 05:44 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
>>>
>>>> We should add /etc and /var/www and exclude 
>>>> /usr/local/spamassassin/backups since it's so large.
>>> Added/excluded as suggested. Thanks very much for the feedback
>>
>> Do we need to setup crashplan to run under supervisord and have monit 
>> email the sysadmins if it stops running again?
> Need? No, CP alerts me if it doesn't run a backup for a few days.  I 
> don't know why it stopped though...
>> Yes. They look fine.  I can create the recovery gpg key if you want me 
>> to then get it over to the infra team for long-term storage.  Then we 
>> would need to resign everything with it plus the current sysadmins' keys. 
> Yes, this would be good for June 14th when I can give the GPG key 
> personally to Greg.

Where should I put the private key then?  If you are going to personally 
see Greg, then it may make more sense for you to generate it offline so 
the private key is not checked into SVN or emailed from me to you.

Dave