Encrypted partition backups.

[Robin Laing]

OK, now it is an option to create encrypted partitions with F10 during 
install.  With this, the issue of backups gets changed and I wonder how 
people are dealing with it.

I am about to install a system where each users home directory will be 
encrypted and mounted on login and unmounted on logout.

Now the question comes to how to make automatic backups of these 
encrypted partitions when they are not mounted.  This has to take into 
account that the backup needs to be as secure as the original users 
directories.

Is there a tool that allows partition backups of only the changes as 
with incremental backups?  Do we just have to clone the partition and 
make copies of that each time?

It is a question that I have posed to our IT staff and they have not 
thought about it either.



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Robin Laing