[ale] Personal Backup Strategies?

[Robert Coggins]

Will duplicity tarball the whole directory you want backed up first?  SO
if I have a 75GB dir full of pics will it create one big tarball, or can
I set it to tarball the individual subfolders/files?

On 02/04/2010 10:40 AM, David Tomaschik wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:22 AM, JK <jknapka at kneuro.net
> <mailto:jknapka at kneuro.net>> wrote:
> 
>     <snip> 
> 
>     None of that would be pertinent to the
>     question of why one would want an encrypted view of a clear local
>     filesystem.
>     If the objective is to secure the data stream in transit, then the
>     straightforward answer would be to, well, encrypt the data stream in
>     transit.
> 
>     Maybe I'm missing something, though.
> 
>     -- JK
> 
> 
> My understand is he wants something to transparently encrypt the files
> as he reads them from disk so they end up encrypted on the disk of the
> remote host.  Duplicity uses gpg as it goes, so it should meet that
> goal.  My only concern with duplicity is that it apparently creates
> tarballs in /tmp before encrypting, which is a no-no to me since my /tmp
> is not encrypted, though I'm considering doing a cryptoswap-style /tmp
> (random key generated on boot).
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> David Tomaschik, RHCE
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