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SubjectRe: crypto and fsck guys.
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> A friend of mine tried once to make backups of an encrypted filesystem.
> That looked easy: just put on a tape/zip/whatever the file containing the
> encrypted filesystem. He found out however that that was not doable: each

You can't do it that way. You mount it and you tar it and slam the archive
through PGP with a nice long key. That works fine, and because you back up
the data and meta information cleanly you never risk backing up corrupted
meta data without noticing




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