Re: [Tails-dev] Feedback wanted on planned implementation of Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2014-04-25 Thread sajolida
Matsa: > Hi CustaiCo, hi all, > > I've been testing persistent backups with Grsync, and reported this on > the blueprint. > > Would you like to have a look there? > > https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/backups/#index5h2 If I understand correctly, our idea so far was to write a dedicated interface wi

Re: [Tails-dev] Feedback wanted on planned implementation of Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2014-04-19 Thread Matsa
Hi CustaiCo, hi all, I've been testing persistent backups with Grsync, and reported this on the blueprint. Would you like to have a look there? https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/backups/#index5h2 Cheers! ___ Tails-dev mailing list Tails-dev@boum.or

Re: [Tails-dev] Feedback wanted on planned implementation of Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2014-04-09 Thread sajolida
intrigeri: >> Would this be worth a Discuss or Research ticket in Redmine? > > Sounds like it's probably worth a Research ticket + a blueprint. Done: https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/backups/ https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/7049 -- sajolida signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital si

Re: [Tails-dev] Feedback wanted on planned implementation of Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2014-04-05 Thread intrigeri
Hi, CustaiCo wrote (04 Apr 2014 09:15:06 GMT) : > What about something like DAR ( http://dar.linux.free.fr/ )? It already > supports ACL backups. It already supports encrypting the archive with a > symmentric key and a strong algorithm, and it looks like it should be > configurable pretty easily w

Re: [Tails-dev] Feedback wanted on planned implementation of Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2014-04-05 Thread intrigeri
sajol...@pimienta.org wrote (04 Apr 2014 09:28:28 GMT) : > I also thought about a loopback LUKS device in a file. This addresses the "how to encrypt the backups" problem, but I don't see how it addresses the "how to backup the files in the first place" one. May you please elaborate what you have i

Re: [Tails-dev] Feedback wanted on planned implementation of Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2014-04-04 Thread sajolida
intrigeri: > Hi, > > CustaiCo wrote (17 Mar 2014 23:00:10 GMT) : >> The backup step would ensure that persistence has been enabled and mounted, >> and then go into /live/persistence/TailsData_unlocked/ then run something >> that >> would be the equivalent of something like this > >> tar cjf - .

Re: [Tails-dev] Feedback wanted on planned implementation of Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2014-04-04 Thread CustaiCo
On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 11:20:47 +0200 intrigeri wrote: > CustaiCo wrote (01 Apr 2014 11:08:44 GMT) : > > Ok, so I took a look at this. It seems mainly focused on doing > > differential backups and backing up to cloud based storage > > services. Is this something that one wants to do? > > JFTR, I

Re: [Tails-dev] Feedback wanted on planned implementation of Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2014-04-03 Thread intrigeri
Hi, CustaiCo wrote (01 Apr 2014 11:08:44 GMT) : > Ok, so I took a look at this. It seems mainly focused on doing > differential backups and backing up to cloud based storage services. Is > this something that one wants to do? JFTR, I would not say it's focused on the cloud. The cloud backends wer

Re: [Tails-dev] Feedback wanted on planned implementation of Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2014-04-01 Thread CustaiCo
Sun, 30 Mar 2014 17:33:30 +0200 intrigeri wrote: > I agree with the general idea, and will only discuss its > implementation here. > > I'm wary of having to maintain yet another shiny new piece of code > that does basically tar|gpg. I'm sure the initial implementation would > be very straightfor

Re: [Tails-dev] Feedback wanted on planned implementation of Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2014-03-30 Thread Alan
Hi, On Sun, 30 Mar 2014 17:23:39 +0200 intrigeri wrote: > >> > I'll admit to never having touched a line of > >> > gtk2 in my life untill I started in on this, but the only way I > >> > saw based on the documentation would be to fork the file picker > >> > dialog box as the amnesia user to preven

Re: [Tails-dev] Feedback wanted on planned implementation of Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2014-03-30 Thread sajolida
Alan: >>> Here the user should be prompted about where to save the backup. >>> Because there might not be enough RAM on the computer to handle >>> that, so they might prefer to write that file directly in some >>> other place, like an external hard drive or USB stick. >> >> I was thinking about tha

Re: [Tails-dev] Feedback wanted on planned implementation of Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2014-03-30 Thread intrigeri
Hi, CustaiCo wrote (17 Mar 2014 23:00:10 GMT) : > The backup step would ensure that persistence has been enabled and mounted, > and then go into /live/persistence/TailsData_unlocked/ then run something that > would be the equivalent of something like this > tar cjf - . | gpg --cipher-algo AES -c

Re: [Tails-dev] Feedback wanted on planned implementation of Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2014-03-30 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Alan wrote (28 Mar 2014 23:34:08 GMT) : >> I was thinking two seperate items: Backup persistent volume and >> Restore Persistent Volume. In fact, I was wondering if restore was >> even going to be worth it considering how little it would be used >> compared to backup. I would certainly hope on

Re: [Tails-dev] Feedback wanted on planned implementation of Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2014-03-30 Thread intrigeri
CustaiCo wrote (28 Mar 2014 14:30:49 GMT) : > Hrm, the apt cache is a pretty big part of my current backups. I'm not > sure this would make it into the first version, however. If you have > the apt list and packages stored, it's likely for a reason. Honestly, I > like 'backup all the things' approa

Re: [Tails-dev] Feedback wanted on planned implementation of Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2014-03-30 Thread intrigeri
Hi, CustaiCo wrote (29 Mar 2014 16:44:27 GMT) : > On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 23:34:08 + > Alan wrote: >> I would avoid running a GUI as root and rather running the GUI as >> amensia or a dedicated user and execute precise actions through >> policykit (execute a command with pkexec or implement a db

Re: [Tails-dev] Feedback wanted on planned implementation of Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2014-03-29 Thread CustaiCo
On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 23:34:08 + Alan wrote: > > > Here the user should be prompted about where to save the backup. > > > Because there might not be enough RAM on the computer to handle > > > that, so they might prefer to write that file directly in some > > > other place, like an external hard

Re: [Tails-dev] Feedback wanted on planned implementation of Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2014-03-28 Thread Alan
Hi, On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:30:49 + CustaiCo wrote: > Thu, 27 Mar 2014 13:51:32 + > From: sajol...@pimienta.org > > > > The backup step would ensure that persistence has been enabled and > > > mounted, and then go into /live/persistence/TailsData_unlocked/ > > > then run something that wo

Re: [Tails-dev] Feedback wanted on planned implementation of Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2014-03-28 Thread CustaiCo
Thu, 27 Mar 2014 13:51:32 + From: sajol...@pimienta.org > > The backup step would ensure that persistence has been enabled and > > mounted, and then go into /live/persistence/TailsData_unlocked/ > > then run something that would be the equivalent of something like > > this > > > > tar cjf - .

Re: [Tails-dev] Feedback wanted on planned implementation of Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2014-03-27 Thread sajolida
CustaiCo: > I am interested in working on getting https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/5301 > "Clone or Backup Persistent Volume" implemented. Thanks a lot for starting that discussion and sorry for the delay. This would definitely be a nice feature to have but the people in the core team, we won't

[Tails-dev] Feedback wanted on planned implementation of Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume

2014-03-17 Thread CustaiCo
I am interested in working on getting https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/5301 "Clone or Backup Persistent Volume" implemented. My current process is to just make an encrypted tarball as root while offline, but that's a real pain because there are lots of times I want to get a backup of something