[Freedombox-discuss] Harddrive + Excito B3

The Doctor drwho at virtadpt.net
Mon May 9 18:40:28 UTC 2011


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On 05/09/2011 01:53 PM, Jonathan Zeppettini wrote:

> LUKS for encryption of backup drive and rsync to do the backup:
> 
> rsync -avc --progress --delete /home/fb/files /media/fb-bak/

rdiff-backup also works quite well for this.

> Or just use dd to image the FB data partition to any external drive
> after encrypting...

The utility would have to ensure that any running processes which kept
files open (like a database server) would be shut down prior to the
backup run, and then started back up when it was complete.

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