On 07/27/2010 04:17 AM, David Christensen wrote: > Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: >> I have a system running off a fully encrypted 160GB HD using LVM over >> LUKS. Obviously, taking an image of the disk clonezilla-style is very >> inefficient as I need 160GB per backup. So, regularly, I take a full tar >> of the system while the system is live. > > An idea -- boot a live CD, open the LUKS partition(s), configure LVM, > run zerofree against the unmounted logical volume, and then dd | tar | > gzip | ccrypt the unmounted volume to an external hard drive? > >
Thanks David for the idea!
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