Scenario 1:
I boot my PC up from a live CD do dd clone the main drive, since it's a bad idea to try to do it online. I create a giant, 500 gigabyte file containing every bit on my main hard drive. This takes 20 hours.
A month later my hard drive crashes and I want to restore it. I put in new hard drive, boot from live CD, and write my giant 500 gigabyte file onto the new drive and reboot. This takes 18 hours. Voila, I have my setup... from a month ago.
Scenario 2:
I have a cron job to run rsync on a few folders that I care about. Rsync copies them over the network to my NAS. It runs every 12 hours and only copies the diffs. My main drive crashes. I put in a new one, re-install Linux (good opportunity to upgrade distributions), and sync my data back over. The whole process takes 2 hours.
What I meant was that they have requirements for employment (regarding drug use, travel history, etc.) that disqualify otherwise qualified individuals.
Wow I bet this girl is real proud of herself. But why is she trying to have this debate with recruiters? How immature.
I hope NSA switches up their recruitment a little bit, make it easier for technically qualified people who aren't exactly choir boys to get a job there. I'd love to work for them.
Surveillance isn't going away, and I bet the technology side of it is fascinating, full of interesting problems.
Scenario 1: I boot my PC up from a live CD do dd clone the main drive, since it's a bad idea to try to do it online. I create a giant, 500 gigabyte file containing every bit on my main hard drive. This takes 20 hours.
A month later my hard drive crashes and I want to restore it. I put in new hard drive, boot from live CD, and write my giant 500 gigabyte file onto the new drive and reboot. This takes 18 hours. Voila, I have my setup... from a month ago.
Scenario 2: I have a cron job to run rsync on a few folders that I care about. Rsync copies them over the network to my NAS. It runs every 12 hours and only copies the diffs. My main drive crashes. I put in a new one, re-install Linux (good opportunity to upgrade distributions), and sync my data back over. The whole process takes 2 hours.
So yeah. Incredibly naive. Sorry.