Dear Lazyweb, Need Simple Encrypted Backup Method to USB on Linux
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.
Comment by Trond Danielsen — May 26, 2008 @ 1:59 am
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I have no answer, but I’d be eager to hear what you find!
Ian
Comment by Ian McKellar — May 26, 2008 @ 2:46 am
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
Comment by Karsten Wade — May 26, 2008 @ 5:48 am
I use duplicity for this purpose.
Comment by Mr. Icon — May 26, 2008 @ 5:54 am