Helm: Personal Email Server

Re:Helm: Personal Email Server by cwyers on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @10:21AM (#18239316)

Yeah, there is no convenient backup policy that doesn't obviate most of the purported benefits of this device. You have to store your backups somewhere off-site to have any kind of data safety, and unless you're dumping out to tapes or some other physical media and stashing your backups in a safety deposit box, that's going to be a server somewhere.

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Re:Helm: Personal Email Server by garry on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @10:39AM (#18239505)

Developers and devops folks can certainly do this, I know I have had to do that before for my production data.

Part of the point (and the impressive software that has been built here) is that backups happen transparently, and if anything ever happens to the Helm you can get another one and get back up and running by restoring from online backups. It's the same principle: things can happen to your iPhone but you can get up and running with a new one easily.

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Re:Helm: Personal Email Server by lvh on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @10:40AM (#18239525)

I'm skeptical of this device, but don't follow your reasoning. One of the device's concerns is security and privacy -- what security or privacy am I giving up by giving my backups to Tarsnap?

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