Nobody interested? To be clear, I'm willing to put in the work. I just don't want to spend too much time on it if it isn't going to go anywhere.
Andrew. On 03/12/15 12:51, Andrew Gallagher wrote: > Hi, all. > > I've written a tool to clone the contents of a mounted persistent volume > (or any other given directory tree) to a fresh or existing persistent > volume on another tails drive. It was done as part of a pet project, but > this functionality really belongs in tails itself. > > It consists of two parts: a perl wrapper that handles user prompts for > passphrases etc. and a small setuid helper that performs the actual > work. The setuid helper will create a partition/filesystem if necessary > and then mounts, rsyncs and unmounts - this requires the passphrase to > be entered multiple times, so the perl wrapper prompts for one itself > and uses expect to supply it to the helper. > > There are currently two main caveats. Firstly, the size of the tails > primary partition is hardcoded in the helper. It should be possible to > extract this instead from the output of parted, and is probably just a > matter of spending an hour or two on it. The other one is that the > wrapper depends on Term::Choose, which isn't packaged in either tails or > debian. I solved this by aliening a perl-term-choose deb but don't want > to be responsible for it, so the user interface really should be rebuilt > (suggestions welcome!). Of course it would probably be best if it could > be integrated into the tails installer instead... ;-) > > You can find the code here: > > https://github.com/andrewgdotcom/frith/tree/master/src/tcp-helper.c > https://github.com/andrewgdotcom/frith/tree/master/bin/tails-clone-persistent > > perl-term-choose can be found here: > > https://andrewg.com/debian/pool/main/p/perl-term-choose/perl-term-choose_1.202.0-2-abg2_all.deb > > Let me know if you think it is useful. > > Andrew.
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