[ale] Personal Backup Strategies?

[Jim Lynch]

Robert Coggins wrote:
> 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?
>   
Duplicity by default makes a bunch of small tarballs.  I use it to back 
up my wife's system and it created over a thousand, 5 Mbyte tar (gziped) 
files.  I don't know if that size can be tuned or not.

Jim.
> 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
>> System Administrator/Developer
>> http://tuxteam.com
>> GPG: 0x6D428695
>>
>>
>>
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