Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted backups under Gentoo

2008-04-17 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

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: | 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... As I

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, sinc

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 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 bac

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). Wh

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

[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 w

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

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

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 incr

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 coul

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 backu

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-

[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 lon