On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 14:03 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > Hi list! > > I'm in need of a backup tool and an advice would be helpful because I > need some special functionality. > > I want to make backups from my laptop to a cardreader (pcmcia), making > daily full and hourly incremental backups *if the card is plugged in* > (which might not be the case for as long as two days). > > Additionally I need some kind of encryption. The key could reside on my > home partition which is encrypted itself and maybe pam-mount + luks is a > solution but I'd like to hear some opinions on that topic. > > If no one comes up with a better solution, I think two cronjobs with > tar, gpg and find will do it, don't you think? The alternative would be > rdiff-backup with some kind of encrypted and possibly compressed file > system.
I do pretty much the same on my laptop. I use good ol' tar and pipe it through GPG. I don't do incrementals though, so that might be more a pain, then again maybe not if your index file is left plaintext. -a -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
