Re: Secure backup of encrypted partition

[Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>]

Robert Jaworski wrote:
> I have an encrypted drive and would like to make a backup of it. This backup
> should also be as secure as my data on disk. My simple question is: how to do
> this?
> 
> I would like to:
> - backup only the data, not the whole partition (save time and media)
> - be able to restore every single file or the whole partition
> - have same security like on the harddisk
> - backup to DVD+RW

Back it up using normal tar, but pipe the tar archive through gpg or
aespipe. Tar has no problems writing to stdout, and gpg (or aespipe) has no
problems reading from stdin.

Regards,
Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>

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