I'm backing up my home directory (ubuntu 16.04) on the boot drive (a 232GB SSD with filesystem encryption (LUKS). The volume has 30GB used.
The dry-run with tarsnap looked good, but when I started the actual backup I used -v in order to track progress. For a day and a half now, it has been chasing the pair of symlinks that implement the stacked filesystem encryption giving screen output that looks like: home/.ecryptfs/rjs/.Private/ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWYFPOLMc6dcz-RcilQIh8jTj1im8fC9VKIL6Kz2fD6JUvC9o3c91YOtgU--/ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWYFPOLMc6dcz-RcilQIh8jTj1im8fC9VKILD5aOq9eum1NIxpJW00ZtF---/ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWYFPOLMc6dcz-RcilQIh8jTj1im8fC9VKILNgnLA6mMrefEow0ai.03Sk--/ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWYFPOLMc6dcz-RcilQIh8jTj1im8fC9VKIL-1SftWagtNSUkuskbt21G--- Checking the account activity, I've only accrued a very small cost for bandwidth, nothing for storage. Am I: 1. in the midst of a disastrous recursional excursion 2. chasing my tail and not getting anything done 3. overthinking this, and should just chill?
