Douglas A. Tutty schrieb: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 09:09:20PM -0500, patric conant wrote: >> I'm confused, the encrypted volume cannot be backed up without a key? > > Sure, I could backup the encrypted volume. However, I'd rather back the > data up as an unencrypted directory along with everything else.
And then someone steals your backup. Wouldn't it be more sophisticated, to secure the physical access (lock up the door, some security on the windows (the real one, not that crap from MS), if any) to the system and encrypt the backup (public-key comes to my mind). As mostly backup will be done on external media (DVD, CD, Tape, USB-Harddrives) It always depends on how paranoid you are (and as I remember you are more paranoid then the average ;-) ), how secret your data is. guido > > I don't know what's involved in e.g. restoring an accidentally deleted > file from within an encrypted volume. I guess I'd treat it like a > tarball in that its a file, mount it somewhere using the usual key and > retreive the file, mount the user's encrypted volume and copy the file > back where it belongs. > > Its likely that its me that's confused. Since what I'm contemplating > doesn't seem to be mainstream, I'm assuming that backup and restore > procedures aren't mainstream (e.g. have the kinks worked out) either. > That assumption could be invalid. > > Doug. > > -- Mit freundlichen Gr|_en, Guido Tschakert _____________________________________________________________ SRC Security Research & Consulting GmbH Graurheindorfer Str. 149 a Tel: +49-228-2806-138 53117 Bonn Fax: +49-228-2806-199 http://www.src-gmbh.de Mob: +49-160-3671422 Handelsregister Bonn: HRB 9414 Geschdftsf|hrer: Gerd Cimiotti
