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Personal Disaster Recovery on a stick

What started out as a simple knowledge management life-hacking exercise has now blossomed into a full-blown personal disaster recovery solution. Aside from the traditional paper filing system, a redundant electronic version of my life’s inventory was nonexistent. I lacked a personal electronic data management policy. A data management policy where the documents that represent my life are secure and stored on my person at all times. With the help of a scanner and a custom JDBC application to store and retrieve BLOBs, I’ve corralled all of my personal documents into an encrypted Apache Derby database. An Apache Derby database is stored in platform-independent files in a directory of the same name as the database. Apache Derby encryption provides complete encryption of on-disk data: indexes, tables, transaction log file, table data, metadata, etc. Using Apache Derby also allows me to provide my relatives with secure backups of my life’s inventory.

March 03, 2008
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