Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted backups under Gentoo

2008-04-18 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 20:05 +0200, Jan Seeger wrote: At Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:16:54 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: I personally use dar and gpg. Dar can be used to make incremental backups which should partly solve your speed problem. Alternatively you could use tar and gpg or cpio or

[gentoo-user] Encrypted backups under Gentoo

2008-04-17 Thread Jan Seeger
As per the subject: I use luks-crypt to encrypt my home directory. Of course I would like to make backups. These must, of course, also be encrypted. I have tried duplicity, but when many changes have occured, this is unbearably slow (being on a laptop). What would be the best solution to back up

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted backups under Gentoo

2008-04-17 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:54 +0200, Jan Seeger wrote: As per the subject: I use luks-crypt to encrypt my home directory. Of course I would like to make backups. These must, of course, also be encrypted. I have tried duplicity, but when many changes have occured, this is unbearably slow

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted backups under Gentoo

2008-04-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:54:50 +0200, Jan Seeger wrote: I use luks-crypt to encrypt my home directory. Of course I would like to make backups. These must, of course, also be encrypted. I have tried duplicity, but when many changes have occured, this is unbearably slow (being on a laptop). What

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted backups under Gentoo

2008-04-17 Thread Jan Seeger
At Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:16:54 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: I personally use dar and gpg. Dar can be used to make incremental backups which should partly solve your speed problem. Alternatively you could use tar and gpg or cpio or whatever floats your boat. Duplicity also does incremental

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted backups under Gentoo

2008-04-17 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Florian Philipp wrote: | On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:54 +0200, Jan Seeger wrote: | As per the subject: | | I use luks-crypt to encrypt my home directory. Of course I would like | to make backups. These must, of course, also be encrypted. I have |

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted backups under Gentoo

2008-04-17 Thread Jan Seeger
At Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:37:52 -0400, Chris Walters wrote: I also use dar, but I don't bother with gpg. I use the '-K:' option of dar, which provides passphrase protected blowfish protection. I suppose I could use gpg, as well, with AES256 or IDEA, but that would be overkill, I think, since

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted backups under Gentoo

2008-04-17 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Jan Seeger wrote: | At Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:37:52 -0400, | Chris Walters wrote: snip | This sounds like a feasible solution, I will try it out. Thanks for | the idea, Florian and Chris. | | I'm just wondering what the dar64 and dar32 useflags do...

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted Backups

2007-11-02 Thread Florian Philipp
Florian Philipp schrieb: 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

[gentoo-user] Encrypted Backups

2007-10-30 Thread Florian Philipp
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted Backups

2007-10-30 Thread Ed Santiago
Hi, 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* ... Additionally I need some kind of encryption. I highly recommend dar: http://dar.linux.free.fr/ It handles incrementals well; has built-in

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted Backups

2007-10-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted Backups

2007-10-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:03:48 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: 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. You could

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted Backups

2007-10-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Albert Hopkins schrieb: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted Backups

2007-10-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 15:32 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Could I see that script? How do you invoke it, anacron/fcron? -- #!/bin/sh OUTFILE=/root/backup.tar.pgp tar -c --one-file-system -X /etc/mybackup.exclude -C / . ./boot | \ gpg --encrypt -r [EMAIL PROTECTED] --yes $OUTFILE --- I