bazaar and ecryptfs

[Martin Pool]

On 11 October 2010 22:40, Tom Browder <tom.browder at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 00:31, Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> wrote:
>> On 9 October 2010 02:45, Tom Browder <tom.browder at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
>> I haven't used bzr on ecryptfs very much, but I know others have.
>> Personally I have all of /home on a luks-encrypted partition.
>>
>> To be more precise, ecryptfs is configured to have a ~/Private
>> directory, the encrypted representation of which is stored at
>> ~/.Private an the underlying repository.
>>
>> It sounds like you want to use bzr as a backup tool, which can work,
>> but generally things designed to be backup tools work better.  What
>> are you trying to accomplish or what problem are you trying to protect
>> against?
>
> First I am using bzr as a version control tool for my private data,
> not for backup.  Then I need to back that encrypted data up onto my
> two backup disks on another host.  At the moment I'm using
> rdiff-backup, which may not be the best choice in this case.
>
> Eventually I would like to use more encryption, but am feeling my way.

OK, so I think you should just make bzr version controlled trees
within the encrypted directory.  If you have ~/Private/myproject, then
init that and commit in there.  bzr shouldn't need to know about the
encryption or vice versa.

-- 
Martin