From: Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca>
To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: Protect/Backup Encrypted FS
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 00:09:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873bu0si96.fsf@evinrude.uhoreg.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42573D9E.1050308@nauticom.net> (Chester R. Hosey's message of "Fri, 08 Apr 2005 22:27:42 -0400")
>>>>> "Chester" == Chester R Hosey <chosey@nauticom.net> writes:
Chester> As far as backing up a partition and restoring that backup, use
Chester> tar. GNU tar (which is almost certainly the default on
Chester> GNU/Linux systems) is quite full-featured and should be able to
Chester> serve your needs.
This should probably be obvious to anyone using encryption, but just in
case...
If you back up using tar, don't store the tar file unencrypted.
Also, you should be encrypting your swap file, or else bits of your data
could end up there unencrypted.
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Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-09 4:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-05 4:48 Protect/Backup Encrypted FS Shannon
2005-04-09 1:56 ` Shannon
2005-04-09 2:27 ` Chester R. Hosey
2005-04-09 2:48 ` Bedros Hanounik
2005-04-09 4:09 ` Hubert Chan [this message]
2005-04-09 4:14 ` David Masover
2005-04-09 4:05 ` Hubert Chan
2005-04-09 4:18 ` David Masover
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