Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> writes: > In article <alpine.deb.2.21.2109211548140.20...@einstein.home.woodall.me.uk> > you write: >>I would like to have some WORM memory for my backups. At the moment >>they're copied to an archive machine using a chrooted unprivileged user >>and then moved via a cron job so that that user cannot delete them >>(other than during a short window). > > Sorry to butt in, but I used to be a filesystem developer in a > previous life, working on archive storage for things like medical and > financial data. Pet peeve: > > WORM is Write *Once* , not Write *Only* > > "Write only" storage is easy and fast - just throw things at /dev/null > and they can never be altered (or read back).
Ah, yes... http://www.ganssle.com/misc/wom1.jpg http://www.ganssle.com/misc/wom2.jpg
