Encrypted partition backups.
Chris Snook
csnook at redhat.com
Tue Jan 13 17:04:48 UTC 2009
Robin Laing wrote:
> OK, now it is an option to create encrypted partitions with F10 during
> install. With this, the issue of backups gets changed and I wonder how
> people are dealing with it.
>
> I am about to install a system where each users home directory will be
> encrypted and mounted on login and unmounted on logout.
>
> Now the question comes to how to make automatic backups of these
> encrypted partitions when they are not mounted. This has to take into
> account that the backup needs to be as secure as the original users
> directories.
>
> Is there a tool that allows partition backups of only the changes as
> with incremental backups? Do we just have to clone the partition and
> make copies of that each time?
>
> It is a question that I have posed to our IT staff and they have not
> thought about it either.
>
>
>
Device mapper can make snapshots of logical volumes. That's probably what you want.
-- Chris
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