Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: crypto and fsck guys. | Date | Mon, 18 Oct 1999 13:40:17 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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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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