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From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted Backups
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:43:10
Message-Id: 1193758651.17330.20.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted Backups by Florian Philipp
1 On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 15:32 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote:
2 > Could I see that script? How do you invoke it, anacron/fcron?
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5 #!/bin/sh
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7 OUTFILE=/root/backup.tar.pgp
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9 tar -c --one-file-system -X /etc/mybackup.exclude -C / . ./boot | \
10 gpg --encrypt -r marduk@××××××.net --yes > $OUTFILE
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13 I do this manually, about once a month. No cron jobs.. just kick it off
14 and then write the image to DVD.
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16 You could of course put in in cron, and then just prepend an 'if'
17 statement that checks to see if the output devices is inserted/mounted.
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