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Re: Bitcoin.org backups

Event · Updated · From Gavin Andresen · Private Correspondence · Malmi Email Archive
Figures: Gavin Andresen ,  Martti Malmi ,  Satoshi Nakamoto
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On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:55 AM, mmalmi@cc.hut.fi wrote:

Quote from: Martti Malmi on December 20, 2010, 3:55:04 PM UTC

ShadowOfHarbringer described a way of mirroring the bitcoin.org website and forum here: http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=2026.msg30043#msg30043

Should we go by it and trust the database along with its password hashes to some reliable community members who have servers?

That seems like asking for trouble, and I think it would violate the implicit trust of everybody who’s registered for the forums.

Another option is to encrypt the backups with pgp and store them in multiple places.

That seems wiser. Daily backups copied … somewhere … seems like the right thing to do. If they’re reasonably small (less than a gigabyte), I’d be happy to pay for Amazon S3 storage/bandwidth for them.

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