Re: [Tails-dev] Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2018-03-06 Thread Andrew Gallagher
Hi, all. Sorry it has been so long since I've written. I have just uploaded v0.2.0 of tails-clone-persistent[1], which is memory-safe and relies entirely on polkit and sudoers to manage privilege escalation. There are still a couple of minor niggles, but I'm hoping someone on the list can help w

Re: [Tails-dev] Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2016-02-04 Thread intrigeri
Andrew Gallagher wrote (10 Jan 2016 01:38:20 GMT) : >> On 10 Jan 2016, at 00:01, intrigeri wrote: >> >> In Tails, we also directly access the block device as the amnesia >> user, since >> /etc/udev/rules.d/99-make-removable-devices-user-writable.rules allows >> us to do that. > Ah, this could be

Re: [Tails-dev] Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2016-01-10 Thread Andrew Gallagher
Andrew Gallagher > On 10 Jan 2016, at 08:40, emmapeel wrote: > > Ok, I didn't tried Andrew's script, but I can say that the 'permissions > issue' was for the users that attended the most difficult part to follow. > > As in after backing up they lose the configurations, > live-additional-softw

Re: [Tails-dev] Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2016-01-10 Thread emmapeel
sajolida: > Spencer: >>> Emma Peel (in copy) could be >>> interested as she's been giving a workshop on Tails backups last week >>> and 32C3. >> Ok, I didn't tried Andrew's script, but I can say that the 'permissions issue' was for the users that attended the most difficult part to follow. As in

Re: [Tails-dev] Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2016-01-09 Thread Andrew Gallagher
> On 10 Jan 2016, at 00:01, intrigeri wrote: > > In Tails, we also directly access the block device as the amnesia > user, since > /etc/udev/rules.d/99-make-removable-devices-user-writable.rules allows > us to do that. Ah, this could be the game changer. I'll look into that and see if it gives

Re: [Tails-dev] Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2016-01-09 Thread intrigeri
anonym wrote (08 Jan 2016 17:43:04 GMT) : > I leave it to sajolida and u to decide on how the backup tool should > integrate into the installer (or if it should be separate), Same here. > and for u and intrigeri to clarify the privileges separation situation > in the installer (I think it's run a

Re: [Tails-dev] Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2016-01-08 Thread anonym
Andrew Gallagher: > On 07/01/16 19:41, anonym wrote: >> >> I haven't tested it, but I did have a look at src/tcp-helper.c since the >> necessity of memory unsafe code surprised me: > > For the record, I never intended to use C. It was originally written in > perl (like the GUI wrapper), but setuid

Re: [Tails-dev] Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2016-01-08 Thread Andrew Gallagher
On 07/01/16 19:41, anonym wrote: > > I haven't tested it, but I did have a look at src/tcp-helper.c since the > necessity of memory unsafe code surprised me: For the record, I never intended to use C. It was originally written in perl (like the GUI wrapper), but setuidperl is no longer supported

Re: [Tails-dev] Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2016-01-08 Thread sajolida
Spencer: >> Emma Peel (in copy) could be >> interested as she's been giving a workshop on Tails backups last week >> and 32C3. > > I found this [0] but no record of anything here [1]. Are there any > recordings of this workshop, or workshops in general, from this event? It was an ad-hoc session

Re: [Tails-dev] Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2016-01-07 Thread Andrew Gallagher
On 07/01/16 14:16, sajolida wrote: > > But we're definitely lacking people writing code in Tails as well, > especially Perl, so it's a good news in and off itself that you can > write Perl and do Debian packages! You may have to retract that after you read the code. ;-) I'm a sysadmin more than a

Re: [Tails-dev] Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2016-01-07 Thread sajolida
Andrew Gallagher: > On 13/12/15 17:46, sajolida wrote: >> >> If you're interested in plugging this in the current code [1] that would >> be awesome. But as we haven't really finished the design decision around >> the backup scenarios, I can't promise anything regarding it's official >> acceptance y

Re: [Tails-dev] Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2016-01-06 Thread Andrew Gallagher
On 13/12/15 17:46, sajolida wrote: > > If you're interested in plugging this in the current code [1] that would > be awesome. But as we haven't really finished the design decision around > the backup scenarios, I can't promise anything regarding it's official > acceptance yet. I have a reasonably

Re: [Tails-dev] Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2015-12-13 Thread sajolida
Andrew Gallagher: > On 11/12/15 10:57, sajolida wrote: >> We have "backup system for persistence" on our roadmap for 2016 [1][2] >> and I'll be the one to work on the broad picture, UX design, etc. So I'm >> definitely interested in your work but I wanted to test it before >> answering (but couldn'

Re: [Tails-dev] Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2015-12-11 Thread Andrew Gallagher
On 11/12/15 10:57, sajolida wrote: > > Hi Andrew, sorry for not answering earlier but as u said we're all too > busy right now. It's the end of the year and we have to finish many > projects. Completely understandable! Sorry for nagging. > We have "backup system for persistence" on our roadmap f

Re: [Tails-dev] Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2015-12-11 Thread Andrew Gallagher
On 10/12/15 19:16, u wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > Andrew Gallagher: >> Nobody interested? > > I guess most of us are simply quite busy atm - but yes, as we created > this ticket initially, we are interested in such a solution. Thank you > for working on this. Sorry, that may have come out more sarcas

Re: [Tails-dev] Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2015-12-11 Thread sajolida
u: > Andrew Gallagher: >> Nobody interested? > > I guess most of us are simply quite busy atm - but yes, as we created > this ticket initially, we are interested in such a solution. Thank you > for working on this. Hi Andrew, sorry for not answering earlier but as u said we're all too busy right

Re: [Tails-dev] Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2015-12-10 Thread u
Hi Andrew, Andrew Gallagher: > Nobody interested? I guess most of us are simply quite busy atm - but yes, as we created this ticket initially, we are interested in such a solution. Thank you for working on this. I had a quick view, but I am not knowledgeable in Perl and just saw that you use rsy

Re: [Tails-dev] Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2015-12-10 Thread Andrew Gallagher
Nobody interested? To be clear, I'm willing to put in the work. I just don't want to spend too much time on it if it isn't going to go anywhere. Andrew. On 03/12/15 12:51, Andrew Gallagher wrote: > Hi, all. > > I've written a tool to clone the contents of a mounted persistent volume > (or any o