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On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 14:03 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> Hi list! |
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> I'm in need of a backup tool and an advice would be helpful because I |
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> need some special functionality. |
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> I want to make backups from my laptop to a cardreader (pcmcia), making |
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> daily full and hourly incremental backups *if the card is plugged in* |
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> (which might not be the case for as long as two days). |
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> Additionally I need some kind of encryption. The key could reside on my |
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> home partition which is encrypted itself and maybe pam-mount + luks is a |
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> solution but I'd like to hear some opinions on that topic. |
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> If no one comes up with a better solution, I think two cronjobs with |
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> tar, gpg and find will do it, don't you think? The alternative would be |
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> rdiff-backup with some kind of encrypted and possibly compressed file |
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> system. |
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I do pretty much the same on my laptop. I use good ol' tar and pipe it |
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through GPG. I don't do incrementals though, so that might be more a |
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pain, then again maybe not if your index file is left plaintext. |
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-a |
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