I've been using my own scripts http://digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/hobbies/backups.html to remotely mirror backuppc's date in an encrypted fashion.
The problem is, the time rsync takes seems to keep growing. I expect this to continue more-or-less without bound, and it's already pretty onerous. So, I need to find a way to rsync on a per-file basis, but still be encrypted. Hence, questions: 1. Does anyone know a way to mount a filesystem so that only one process can see it? If I could do that, I could have an encrypted loop filesystem mounted remotely for rsync's sole use, and just rsync into that. I'm not willing to have the encripted filesystem mounted globally on the remote machine, as I am not the sole user, nor do I own it. 2. Does backuppc ever change pool files (rather than simply replace them)? If the answer is no, I don't need to worry about the rsync-friendliness of any per-file encryption method I might use. 3. Ignoring logs and such, is anything outside of the pool or cpool dir ever *not* a hard link into the pool/cpool dir? If the answer is no, then per-file encryption is relatively easy. One way is to rsync -H a copy of all backuppc data and encrypt each pool file (in a way that doesn't break hard links) and then rsync that encrypted copy out remotely. Another way is to roll encryption in to the backuppc compression program. Can anyone think of other ways to solve this problem? Thanks. -Robin -- Lojban Reason #17: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
