-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Florian Philipp wrote: | On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:54 +0200, Jan Seeger wrote: |> As per the subject: |> |> I use luks-crypt to encrypt my home directory. Of course I would like |> to make backups. These must, of course, also be encrypted. I have |> tried duplicity, but when many changes have occured, this is |> unbearably slow (being on a laptop). What would be the best solution |> to back up with encryption barring duplicity? |> |> Regards, |> Jan Seeger | | 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. | | 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. | | Let me know if you are interested in any of these options so I can | explain the details further (if you need support with that, that is).
I also use dar, but I don't bother with gpg. I use the '-K:' option of dar, which provides passphrase protected blowfish protection. I suppose I could use gpg, as well, with AES256 or IDEA, but that would be overkill, I think, since I keep my backups on an external USB port drive. Chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJIB5j7AAoJEIAhA8M9p9DA+ccP/AqbWUYZMc76kiRa1nqL1A81 rDqrTomadkHoyqCgl0sXwmz85kEzgV33QP/yqrnSwAXQisDgvyQ9v8INOGff1p7D e2Rw3U+31/U+xz1dMYTS8ucLKLKwMkU1m9+iIkRBbPDJPTVyUzup33RoV8Bt00oF 5241fYPhJQsLd/zwiYsUk6w7NO+4xyW7x9n2FXbOKZGuwSNT+0mVwXX/fDlvXhJJ awkQMAfpv2vVQ5Y5+ovlhawECU/mv1BxOTrYB9M0jViT9ugKcoJEhJyONLra0LBL 1dwy/6g5PB+4RB/xKXZqJdO02gp7vqf3H2rlA6qcj+O0/b8gK5Jl1/QP2duzdgL5 XbChyiVfF5KTEB9EgAUuhrIMr+At5rinxFQmu0S8ohgoHRakFXAIhv7+DX6rkKJD Y5Jf8X6sV+Flqac4dD9znmb98RgcbVTEyHLLKKPrvZ2mcEhRCw6I+HXcnYvFQV57 xEXbYEkKTXHlb6OFWOSC/ynvhw87mBz+Zjx0trm61awrgYBBgYoSBJk3nemjtL9e 0yslvgzMOClTjSlC9lgnCmiQDQNgFFgIUHSmrt/yfQ69jrluii7hvWJfRfFsu9i1 5wOnzOt5fI1sTxOoX9yMEXK+PjEgncdBVPMMF+dMvan4vyxGpAPwgzQSedgWPbgI dwBz2ugEZAAsV0EszSQS =mGmy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
