Re:How I Fired Myself
by danielh on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @11:21AM
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That is good advice, just make sure that it doesn't look like you are stealing your customers/clients data.
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Re:How I Fired Myself
by mootothemax on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @11:25AM
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That is good advice, just make sure that it doesn't look like you are stealing your customers/clients data.
Excellent point! Any tips on how to avoid that, other than not taking the data home / copying to personal Dropbox-type things?
Well, IANAL. I think you already covered the most important point: store backups on hardware/services under the control of your employer/client.
I would document the backup process and communicate it to my manager/client with a mail like "hey, I set up backups, they are stored at <server>, docs are in the wiki".
Other potential issues: causing unauthorized costs ("who stored 10TB on S3?") or privacy violations, e.g. when working with healtcare or payment data.
I've done this before and I just email it to myself using the company email account. This way nothing leaves the workplace. Also, no financial transaction data was in the db as it was a simple wordpress blog.
If it stored credit card data or other important stuff I'd take a look at what PCI compliance says you have to do for your backups and follow that.