Clone a system to an encrypted drive

[Martin Cigorraga]

Look Arch Linux's wiki for LUKS / dm-crypt, you will probably need to read
some documentation but in an hour or less you should be able to create an
encrypted partition, an encrypted swap, learn how to unlock it manually or
via cryptab/cryptsecrets and so on.
GL.

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015, 22:21 Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net> wrote:

> I have a running Fedora 21 system.  I would like to make a backup of it
> to a USB drive, a clone that can be booted.  I know how to do all the
> "normal" stuff (partition, LVM, mkfs, rsync, and GRUB), but I'd like the
> USB drive to be encrypted, and I don't know how to set that up manually
> (I haven't messed with encrypted filesystems under Linux before).
>
> The system I'm backing is also headless, so no GUI tools.
>
> Pointers, tips, suggestions?  Thanks.
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> Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net>
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