Automating backups to an encrypted drive

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Sun Jan 27 00:14:21 UTC 2008


Alan Cox wrote:
>> Simply to leave the backups alone.  The only 'threat' would be that
>> inadvertently a user could mess with the files on the backup drive.
>> The backups happens every night and when they're done the drive is
>> presently automatically unmounted for the day.  Works fine with
>> unencrypted drives. 
> 
> You want any backup drive physically removed and unconnected most of the
> time or a PSU failure/nearby lightning strike will blow both the original
> disk and backup disk to kingdom come at once.
> 
which brings to me the idea of having the backup at a remote site, where 
it can be mounted all the time and only an encrypted connexion opened.

However you do it, you're going to need either someone physically 
present or the keys stored some place. I imagine the script could 
actually read the password/key from a private location.



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Cheers
John

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