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I suggest getting a dog. Put his/her food bowl right by the server. Train said dog to guard the house.
This gets you a number of benefits, exercise, you have to take the dog for a walk, security, companionship, and someone to play Frisbee with.
I prefer sea bass with friggin' lasers...Good idea, server guard dogs ftw
I prefer sea bass with friggin' lasers...
I suggest getting a dog. Put his/her food bowl right by the server. Train said dog to guard the house.
This gets you a number of benefits, exercise, you have to take the dog for a walk, security, companionship, and someone to play Frisbee with.
I suggest getting a dog. Put his/her food bowl right by the server. Train said dog to guard the house.
This gets you a number of benefits, exercise, you have to take the dog for a walk, security, companionship, and someone to play Frisbee with.
If the information is that important, I would recommend colocating the server.
What if the house burns?
Without drilling into the floor or wall studs your not going to really be able to secure it. I guess if you really wanted too you could get a big ass case and weight it down somehow but you really are not doing anything safe.
You could get a safe for the DVDs and then encrypt the hard drives... no many thieves knew how to decrypt data
You can get past a guard dog, but nobody !@#$'s with a lion.
Ok guys, stop dreamin here...
First off, it is in a walk-in closet on the 2nd floor, this is a townhouse so I cannot install any sort of bio-metric locks to the door, I cannot drill through the wall...I am really out of ideas on how to protect this thing.
I need to protect it in case someone ever broke in and tried to steal it. Granted they would probably take my 4 other gaming pc's and leave, you never know. I cannot trust that no one will steal it, it holds important customer information that is backed up to dvd weekly, but what if they stole those also?
I'm thinking about maybe just getting a Fireproof Safe and locking the dvd's in the safe. Although since I cannot bolt it to the floor, I may have to try and get one heavy enough that no one with be able to lift it. I dunno what to do???
edit: colocation is too expensive. has to be another solution?
If the data base is only 3GB how about getting a big flash drive and just hang it around you neck?
Just get a few 4GB flash drives and hide them throughout the house or even somewhere else.
Even with a large safe, if it isn't bolted down, two or three guys may be able to pick it up. That happens occasionally on It Takes a Thief.
You could get a safe for the DVDs and then encrypt the hard drives... no many thieves knew how to decrypt data
If they came looking specifically for that data, I'll bet cracking it wide open wouldn't be an issue given some time. As for the safe, people steal ATM machines all the time with a pickup and a winch, I doubt the OP could afford to cold bolt and concrete mount the thing in his house/apt so...
Safety deposit box for the DVDs if necessary. An extreme and time-consuming option, but there it is.
As for securing the server, I'd probably find a wall someplace in the house where I could literally carve out a section and place it, totally out of view, and put some piece of furniture in front of it or a painting, etc. Hidden panels ftw!!!
Some of the things suggested here (hiding flash drives) don't require any modification of the apartment or whatever you live in, yet you shot down all the ideas for it.Already said I cannot cut, drill, hide, stash anything into the walls or floor! The management does usual checks to verify everything is working and clean, they would notice a huge metal rack bolted to a stud where the drywall should be!!
So if you don't care if someone steals the server- why the title "How to physically lock down..."????I do not care if someone steals the server, as long as I can recover the data I'm fine.
Yea, you can't really close threads thoughTHREAD CLOSED. Until further notice.
.........it holds important customer information that is backed up to dvd weekly,
I don't care if anyone else gets it, just as so long as I still have a current copy somewhere.
Wow, remind me not do to buisness with you?
If you have customer information and you dont care if they steal it ? sure your clients would love to hear that....
or is it not really any info, like names and address ?