On Aug 2, 2021, at 3:12 AM, intrigeri <intrig...@boum.org> wrote: >: If I understood correctly, the data is copied to another, pre-existing > (and already unlocked & mounted) Tails Persistent Storage, i.e. > the scripts add a GUI on top of our current command line instructions: > https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/persistence/backup/
That’s correct, it simply creates a GUI for the existing instructions. For many users, that’s a big improvement. No opening a terminal window, and no typing or copying a long command string. > The good news is that this is entirely compatible with the design we > want to implement eventually (possibly next year). Great! > To me this would be a good incremental improvement over our current > instructions. Thank you, that’s my hope as well. One small tweak: At one time my tails-backup script wrote to a log file, and there are a few vestiges of that in what I posted. You should remove the lines that say: LOG="$HOME/backup-log.txt” and rm -fr "${LOG}" To make things easier for you, below is a tweaked version of tails-backup that removes those lines. The file tails-backup.desktop is unchanged from what I posted earlier, but for simplicity I’m reposting it below (so it’s all in one place). Again, it’s short & simple, it should be easy to review. --- David A. Wheeler ==== tails-backup.desktop ==== [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Name=Backup persistent volume Comment=Backup the Tails persistent volume to another TailsData volume Exec=gnome-/usr/bin/gnome-terminal --title 'Log for Backing up Tails persistent volume' --hide-menubar -- /home/amnesia/Persistent/tails-backup Terminal=false Categories=Utilities StartupNotify=false # # Test with: # xdg-desktop-menu install tails-backup.desktop ==== tails-backup ==== #!/bin/sh # tails-backup: Back up Tails' persistent disk into the mounted backup region. # Persistent storage & backup storage must already be unlocked, and # there must be an admin password set set -eu export TEXTDOMAIN='tails' SOURCE='/live/persistence/TailsData_unlocked/' DEST='/media/amnesia/TailsData/' # Newline NL="$(printf '\nX')" NL="${NL%X}" if [ ! -d "$SOURCE" ]; then msg="$(gettext -s 'Encrypted persistent storage must be unlocked first. Please reboot, then unlock encrypted persistent storage and under additional settings set an administrative password.')" zenity --error --ellipsize --text "$msg" exit 1 fi if [ ! -d "$DEST" ]; then msg="$(gettext -s 'Backup storage area must be unlocked first. Please run Applications ▸ Accessories ▸ Files, select the backup encrypted volume (TailsData), and unlock it with your passphrase.')" zenity --error --ellipsize --text "$msg" exit 1 fi title="$(gettext -s 'Alert')" msg="$(gettext -s 'Would you like to back up your persistent encrypted storage to the backup storage area? This will replace all data in the backup storage area.'"$NL"'If you agree, you will then need to enter your administrator password to actually run the backup.')" if ! zenity --question --ellipsize --title "$title" --text "$msg"; then exit 1 fi # Run real backup command. This requires privileges. if pkexec /usr/bin/rsync -PaSHAXv --del "$SOURCE" "$DEST" ; then # Ensure RAM buffers are written out sync; sync; sync sleep 1 msg="$(gettext -s 'Backup succeeded. Please eject (unmount) the backup storage area media.'"$NL"'You can do this by running Applications ▸ Accessories ▸ Files, selecting the backup encrypted volume (TailsData), and ejecting it.')" zenity --info --ellipsize --text "$msg" else msg="$(gettext -s "Backup failed. See details in log file ${LOG}")" zenity --error --ellipsize --text "$msg" exit 1 fi _______________________________________________ Tails-dev mailing list Tails-dev@boum.org https://www.autistici.org/mailman/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to tails-dev-unsubscr...@boum.org.