Adivce on Partitions

[Ylan Segal]

Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (02/06/06 08:24), Ylan Segal wrote:
> 
>>
>>So, my brand-new plan is:
>>
>>/home - Separate partition with enough space for music + other data
>>/home/ylan.encrypted - Encrypted storage container
>>/home/ylan - Home directory, mounts to /home/ylan.encrypted (via encfs +
>>libpam-encfs)
>>/home/music - where my music will be stored (unencrypted)
>>
>>/home/ylan.encrypted will be backed up regularly (in encrypted form)
>>using regular methods.
>>
>>I believe this keeps everything neatly organized and allows for my
>>encryption / music storing / backup scheme to work without much hassle.
>>
> 
> I've come in on this a bit late but if you use rsync for backups it has
> an 'excludes' option which enables you to exclude files and
> subdirectories from the backup.

In my particular situation, I want to backup the encrypted data. I plan
to use encfs which is a pass-through file system, which encrypts data on
a file by file basis (as opposed to using a loopback file system on a
single file or partition). This has the benefit that I can back-up on a
individual file basis and can make use of rsync, tar and all the
standard tools that people use for backups. However, since the filename
will be encrypted also, I wouldn't be able to use the excludes options
since I wouldn't know what to exclude!

Does that make sense? I am not sure I explained everything properly,
although it makes perfect sense in my head.

Regards,

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Ylan

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