On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 05:23:48PM +0000, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Anyone got any experience/suggestions for a way to store a directory of > sensitive information on a CentOS box? This directory contains many scripts > and output files, I need it backed up but not unencrypted and don't want > to store it in a tar file type archive as when it needs to be accessed and > have scripts executed/data generated, it needs to be untarred/unencrypted and > I don't know the ramifications of this wrt recovery once its retarred and > deleted. > I was hoping it could be stored somehow such that it was decrypted on the fly > when > needed by entering a pass/keyphrase before use. > > Thus it could be backed up and remain encrypted. Is dm-crypt the simplest > option > here?
If you want to backup the directory while it is still encrypted (not mounted), look for encfs. But I prefer luks myself (uses dm-crypt). -- lfr 0/0
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