How to encrypt and burn to dvdr my home dir?
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Wed Nov 29 18:51:44 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 06:50 -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 02:10:15AM +1800, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> >
> > I was hoping for something that would create a loop back image in
> > the form of a file that I could just mount and backup the files to ,
> > maintaining perms and datetimes - then burn to a cd, which I could
> > mount and then mount the encrypted fs from.
>
> Oh, well, why didn't you say so?
>
> There are several encrypted file systems available for Linux. You
> could simply put your home directory on one.
>
> I don't know if there is any way to build a CD/DVD with an encrypted
> version of the ISO file system. I think that would be useful for
> distributing data with some security. A bit of googling should turn
> something up.
>
> >
> > I will settle for just taring and burning to a regular dvdr.
>
> Good luck.
>
What about truecrypt?
http://www.truecrypt.org/
If I was making a backup, I would tar and encrypt as explained before
and then RAR the files to make the files sizes easier to deal with.
Just a thought.
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