On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 10:30:03AM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:12:29 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
> > I have an encfs encrpted partition on my home machine.. However I want
> > a back up offsite.
> >
> > The encrypted partition would be mounted, the contents tarred/gzipped,
> > mcrypt'ed on home machine then scp'ed to the remote for offsite
> > storage once a week or so, overwriting each time.
>
> Why not just tar up the underlying encfs partition? The data is already
> encrypted, what's the point of decrypting it to encrypt it again? That
> way you don't need to rely on any encryption software on the remote
> computer.
Exactly. I have recovered files from an encrypted partition, and all
I have is the backup of the encrypted data. I repeat the normal mount
procedure on the encrypted backup, recover my file, and umount it.
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