When they discovered more than 42,000 patient records and millions of patient clinical notes exposed on a misconfigured
rsync backup, researchers at UpGuard responsibly set out to notify the entity to secure their data.
Not exact matches
I'd recommend investigating a solution that offers
rsync based
backups that can be encrypted.
I use two free, open - source software tools for
backup:
rsync and Unison.
Say, for example, you are trying to
backup / data / web / and send it to another server, so you use a command like
rsync - a / data / web / user@server: /
backups / data / web / to make it happen... but you'd really like to skip syncing the / data / web / cache / folder.
If you couple
rsync with compression via tar and schedule it using the crontab, you can have automatic
backups sent to your network attached storage (NAS) or remote server through SSH.