Re: IDE backup on single host (was: Re: Software backup)

[Jarno Elonen <elonen@iki.fi>]

> > Does anyone know any way to make this more difficult without introducing
> > a remote host? Are there, for example, any Linux kernel options for
> > "device access passwords" or such?
>
> Maybe removing the appropriate /dev/hd* entries after backup, and
> recreating them just before backup with mknod.

Ingenious. :b

Does it work reliably with devfs? (So that devices don't magically reappear 
after deletion, for example)?

- Jarno