Adivce on Partitions

[Clive Menzies]

On (02/06/06 09:38), Ylan Segal wrote:
> Clive Menzies wrote:
> > 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.

It sounds good to me; thanks for the explanation :)

Regards

Clive

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