On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 09:34:56AM +0100, Michiel van Baak wrote: > On 16:14, Wed 29 Oct 08, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > I think I want root to be able to mount/access the directories so that > > the data can be included in a backup set (which is then piped through > > openssl for encryption) on a file-by-file basis rather than just backing > > up a filesystem image and risking the whole thing if that image becomes > > corrupted. > > Here's a possible way to make backups for users homes: > Install boxbackup, create a configfile per user, add a line to .profile > that runs boxbackup in snapshot modes everytime a user logs in or logs > out. > Boxbackup transfers and stores the backups encrypted. So no need to > worry there. >
I'm not familiar with boxbackup (I'll look it up later). Something similar was that I figured that the encrypted images could be under, e.g. /enchome and the user's .profile may cause the encrypted volume to be mounted over their /home/<username> directory. Doug.
