On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 03:15:40PM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > I have a non-encrypted file system. I would like to transfer/backup > the files to a remote locations, which is possibly not trusted.
> > Therefore, I would like to mount my non-encrypted rootfs i.e. to > /mnt/crypt, where the whole rootfs would be seen as encrypted files. > > From /mnt/crypt, I could transfer crypted files with standard tools > like rsync or ftp, to a possibly non-secure, remote location. Even > if the remote site is compromised, the files are encrypted, so the > harm is limited. > > Then, if I ever want to restore the files from backup, I would just > fetch them from the backup into /secret, and do: > > mount -t ecryptfs /secret /secret > > Can I do something like that with eCryptfs? No, eCryptfs does not have this functionality. You will have to mount a new location on your local filesystem, copy the files into that new location, and then rsync or ftp from the lower directory that you mounted on.
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