Re: Hot-backup a complete Debian install
finally,
if you dont trust the machine you must encrypt before transfer :-|
lot of time, cpu and disk.
another option could be sign the backup with md5 for example?
this way you can trust the backup content.
i think...
Roman Medina <roman@rs-labs.com> dijo:
> On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 11:42:25 -0000, you wrote:
>
> >which is the backup target media?
>
> Hard-disk. The idea is to have another logical partition for backups
> and then some scripts to upload/download to any secure site (I could
> use rsync over ssh or simply scp). But the uploading is a second step.
> Now I'd like to deal with the first stage: the dump process.
>
> Another question: for restoring a backup, do I need to create (fdisk)
> a destination partition with the exact same size of the original?
> Could I use a greater one? (in this case, would I lose disk-space or
> the filesystem is "expanded" accordingly?).
>
> Finally, the 3rd stage: if you're going to save the backup files in
> an "non-trusty" machine, which kind of container / encryption software
> would you use? This would need to be easily scriptable, for automatize
> the backup task.
>
> Thanks to all the contributors of this thread!
>
> Regards,
> --Roman
>
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