Would be cool to get the BackupPC TopDir on an encrypted container so I could backup machines that are running an encrypted OS.
I found out that dm_crypt can be used between a loop mounted FS container to encrypt all the data in that container, there's just one problem, the size of the container isn't dynamic. So as the backup space requirements change you would need to manually shrink and grow the container and the filesystem in it. I don't want that. The only dynamic crypto container solution I found was EncFS, it seems to be the perfect tool for the job. I tried and tried and tried on my Debian Lenny but I just couldn't get the TopDir to work on an EncFS mount residing on an ext3 partition. EncFS has a command line argument '--public' that is supposed to make the mount act as a normal multiuser mount, well it doesn't work. My backuppc user gets Permission Denied when trying to create new files. And I've checked that the filesystem permissions allowed writing for user backuppc. Now when I do the default EncFS single user mount while logged in as user backuppc, the BackupPC 3.1.0 daemon starts all happy, but the WebUI refuses to connect to the daemon for some reason. Has anyone got EncFS to work with BackupPC? Are there any other solutions I might wanna consider? +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by [email protected] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [email protected]. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
