Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted Backups

[Florian Philipp]

Florian Philipp schrieb:
> Hi list!
>
> I'm in need of a backup tool and an advice would be helpful because I
> need some special functionality.
>
> I want to make backups from my laptop to a cardreader (pcmcia), making
> daily full and hourly incremental backups *if the card is plugged in*
> (which might not be the case for as long as two days).
>
> Additionally I need some kind of encryption. The key could reside on my
> home partition which is encrypted itself and maybe pam-mount + luks is a
> solution but I'd like to hear some opinions on that topic.
>
> If no one comes up with a better solution, I think two cronjobs with
> tar, gpg and find will do it, don't you think? The alternative would be
> rdiff-backup with some kind of encrypted and possibly compressed file
> system.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Florian Philipp

Thanks for the answers, so far. I'll play around with it as soon as the 
hardware arrives.
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