Ok, the title pretty much says it all. Lu bought me a new 250 gb backup drive for locking down my backups while on the road (and I already have a halfway solution at home thanks to advice from readers). I’m curious what is the best option for syncing up my 80 gb thinkpad x61 to a partition on this drive, which can act as a daily backup, and be used in the event of something bad? I run gentoo on my computers currently, and want to just do more than just rsync to this drive in that I want the content encrypted.
Please help me lazyweb! Another option is to pay for a service like mozy.com or carbonite, but I want to stay in commandline realm and where I don’t need network access..
Perhaps http://www.arg0.net/encfs is what you are looking for? It’s in the Fedora repos.
I have no answer, but I’d be eager to hear what you find!
Ian
Well, yeah, for Fedora, it’s fairly straightforward. Encrypt the file system and use rsync locally. You can surely do this in Gentoo, you just need to figure out what to portage.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security_Guide/9/LUKSDiskEncryption
I use duplicity for this purpose.