[ale] how do I make a virus proof nas?

[JD]

This would make a great topic for the ALE-NW discussion panel on Thursday evening.
The wisdom of a group working on a problem together can be amazing.

"Ron Frazier (ALE)" <atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I'm considering making a mini nas to run backups on here at home.  It
>would probably have 2 - 4 TB of storage.  My router has 1 USB port, so
>I could just attach a HDD to that.  Or, I could get something like a
>Buffalo Link Station which holds two drives and attaches to the router.
>
>The main concern I've always had about having backup media attached all
>the time is that, if a virus got into the machine, it could attack and
>wipe out the backup drive.
>
>So, I need to know how to make a virus proof nas, such that at least
>one partition on the device is accessible only  to the backup software
>for write mode.  I don't care if everything can read the backup file,
>but I only want the backup software to be able to add new files, write
>to them, or delete them.
>
>I need something that can run while Windows 7 is running and backup
>using the volume shadow copy service.  I also need it to be able to
>back up the ext4 Ubuntu partition on the PC's HDD, either by reading
>the native file system or by using a sector by sector approach.  This
>way, I can just let the backups run periodically on their own and not
>worry about malware affecting the backup.
>
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