Package: obnam Version: 1.0-1~squeeze1 Severity: wishlist Hello,
thank you for obnam. I've just spent some time trying to set up encrypted backup for my whole system, and it wasn't so straightforward. Here's a list of gotchas: - you need root, which means your usual keyring isn't accessible, and gpg-agent likely won't work because it's been run as the user you use for the X session, and obnam runs gpg in batch mode and won't give it a way to ask for a passphrase. So you *need* a passphraseless key. Which in turn needs to be encrypted with some password for storage elsewhere. - backup is best done with specifying entire file systems, rather than dirs. --one-file-system works there, but it's nice to show how one can backup multiple file systems using --one-file-system, just by listing multiple backup locations. That wasn't hard, I know, but you cannot be sure if obnam behaves like tar until you try :) - if I want to put my backup strategy entirely in the config file, there are no examples of providing bool options there. "one-file-system = True" seems to work. - also, there is no documentation on how to provide multiple locations to --root (thanks to your support on IRC, I now know it's a comma-separated list) My resulting .obnam.conf: [config] one-file-system = True repository = /media/backups/HOSTNAME log = /root/obnam.log encrypt-with = KEYID root = /home, / I'm sorry I cannot offer to write the tutorial myself as I'm in the middle of some disaster recovery after a laptop failure. Gotta back up the only remaining copy of all my data before it's too late. Ciao, Enrico -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.5 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages obnam depends on: ii libc6 2.13-30 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii python 2.6.6-3+squeeze7 interactive high-level object-orie ii python-cliapp 0.29-1~squeeze1 Python framework for Unix command ii python-larch 1.20120527-1~squeeze1 B-tree library for Python ii python-paramiko 1.7.6-5 Make ssh v2 connections with Pytho ii python-tracing 0.6-2~bpo60+1 Python debug tracing helper ii python-ttystatus 0.18-1~squeeze1 terminal progress bar and status o ii python2.6 2.6.6-8+b1 An interactive high-level object-o obnam recommends no packages. obnam suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
