rsync backup of /home/.ecryptfs causes errors

[Peter Humphrey]

On Wednesday 09 December 2009 08:30:10 James Taylor wrote:

> Inevitably, to take a consistent backup copy of the .ecryptfs file
> you'll need to make sure the corresponding user is logged out. Is there
> not a night time hour when you can be reasonably certain nobody is
> logged in? Can you take the system to single user run level at the
> scheduled hour to do the backups?

On my boxes I have a small rescue system in its own partition, which I use for 
things like making backups. That guarantees that no files are open when 
they're backed up.

Of course, these aren't mission-critical systems.

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Rgds
Peter