lewis/README.md

Lewis

Lewis is our server used for backups.

Architecture

Backups are implemented in a pull fasion. A single Borg backup repository is maintained on this server. Servers in our network expose a SSHFS share with files they wish to be backed up. Authentication of these SSHFS shares is done using SSH user certificates.

TODO: off-site backups

Right now, all backup data is still stored on-site. One potential place to store backups off-site is Amazon S3. Another options would be HiDrive S3 from Strato.

TODO: offline backups

Another improvement to our backup system is to incorporate offline backups. I should investigate what is a good method to do this.