# Encrypting data at rest

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/encrypting-data-at-rest/23693>\
**Category:** Sysadmins\
**Tags:** explanation\
**Created:** [January 5, 2015, 10:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/encrypting-data-at-rest/23693 "2015-01-05T22:13:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2015, 10:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/encrypting-data-at-rest/23693/2 "2015-01-05T22:16:03Z")

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I would recommend

1. Disabling S3 and handling all data yourself
2. Enabling full disk encryption on your linux server

I would strongly recommend not trying to hack the app to support this edge case, its a solved problem.

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