> I'm trying to get my lbackup set up functionally, but have hit some > road blocks and find the documentation to be less than helpful. Its > too bad there is no wiki or forum on the lbackup.org website?
The LBackup website is a wiki and content is a community effort. For further details please refer to the following link : http://www.lbackup.org/about#about_this_documentation If you are interested in improving the content of the LBackup site then please visit : http://www.lbackup.org/contribute > I am setting up lbackup on OS X 10.6 soley because I want a fully > encrypted snapshot backup of my system: If you want to have a solid bootable back I would suggest that you shut your system down and then use a tools such as Carbon Copy Cloner to make a backup to an encrypted disk image. Further details are available from : http://www.lbackup.org/full_system_backup > Time-machine will only make backups when logged out if the home folder is > encrypted. Yes with the current TimeMachine this is the case. The recommended approach when using LBackup to backup your FileVault enabled home directory while you are logged into the system is to perform a file level backup of the mounted encrypted file-system. There are other approaches which LBackup will accommodate. However, provided you are logged into the system, this approach is reliable and as such is recommended. > I have formatted a 750gb external hard drive with TrueCrypt Is there any reason in particular you are opting to use TrueCrypt for the backup. It will work. However, there are bundled scripts which support the use of hdiutil. If you decide to use TrueCrypt and put together a set of scripts for mounting and un-mounting the encrypted file system then please consider releasing them to the LBackup project. > The documentation on lbackup.org only has a simplistic configuration listed, > and so I am not sure if the default function of lbackup is to call rsync for > snapshots... Does A more comprehensive LBackup configuration example is available once you install LBackup. Have a look at the "example_backup_config" configuration directory on your system : "/lbackup/example_backup_config/" > I made a test configuration file, however on execution I get this error: > > WARNING! : Permissions are disabled on backup destination volume. > It is recommended that permissions on the destination > volume are enabled. > Failure to enable permissions will most likely result in > the hard link system failing. > Permissions may be enabled by issuing the following command as > root : > /usr/sbin/vsdbutil -a /Volumes/Athens Backup Because your volume name has a space in the name you will need to run the following command : /usr/sbin/vsdbutil -a "/Volumes/Athens Backup" Ensure you are running the command as root on the system. The following URL has information regarding the setup of permission on OS X volumes for Mac OS X systems : http://www.lbackup.org/permissions I would suggest that you run the following command to check that permissions have been enabled for your encrypted backup volume : vsdbutil -c "/Volumes/Athens Backup" > Is it OK to modify the config file to suppress this error? I would suggest that you do not modify the configuration to suppress this error. Doing so will mean that hard linking the backup snapshots together will fail. > Since lbackup.org recommends using truecrypt as a way to encrypt backups. Yes, TureCyrpt works well with LBackup. However, keep in mind that there are bundled support scripts for use with hdiutil. Finally, I would recommend against using spaces in the paths for your backups. LBackup will work fine with spaces in the path names. However, do not place a space in the name of the backup directory destination. If you are still having problems please provide the a compressed copy of your configuration directory and the output from the following command : vsdbutil -c "/Volumes/Athens Backup" Once you have this working, please consider generating some specific documentation relating to LBackup and TrueCrypt integration or submitting a screen cast on setting up LBackup and TrueCrypt integration. If you have further questions then let me know. --------------------------------------------------------------------- This email is protected by LBackup, an open source backup solution. http://www.lbackup.org _______________________________________________ http://www.lbackup.org lbackup-discussion mailing list lbackup-discussion@lists.connect.homeunix.com http://lists.connect.homeunix.com/listinfo/lbackup-discussion
