[IMC-Tech] A small correction for Indymedia's announcement?

Richard Stallman rms at gnu.org
Sun Oct 24 10:10:15 PDT 2004


Are you working on developing backup guidelines to suggest to all
Indymedia groups?  It would be useful to suggest maintaining backups
in several places that would not be easy to find.  You could also list
a few mistakes to avoid.

You might want to release a script that can be installed on any web
server and creates an automatically-updated mirror site.  It can get
the data using wget.  Then every Indymedia site can simply ask to set
up mirrors.  They don't need to tell you that they have done so, since
you can find them through search engines.  If the main site is seized,
the mirrors will still be available, and nearly all the articles
you have published will be findable in them.

It is important to warn people never to store ay ssh or gpg private on
Indymedia servers or other server machines.


Please forgive me if this is just telling you what is already
obvious to you.



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