At Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:16:54 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > I personally use dar and gpg. Dar can be used to make incremental > backups which should partly solve your speed problem. Alternatively you > could use tar and gpg or cpio or whatever floats your boat.
Duplicity also does incremental backups, but it's still slow. Using dar, would I have to "manually" (or per script) use gpg to encrypt the archives? > The alternative would be an encrypted filesystem and rdiff-backup or > rsync. Optionally you could safe the key to the filesystem on your home > partition or, if it doesn't need to be automated, in a gpg-encrypted > file. An encryted filesystem and rdiff-backup or similar was another option I though of. The problem is restoration: Would I easily be able to restore the backups from a freshly installed system? Regards, Jan -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
