On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 09:34:56AM +0100, Michiel van Baak wrote:
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> On 16:14, Wed 29 Oct 08, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > I think I want root to be able to mount/access the directories so that
> > the data can be included in a backup set (which is then piped through
> > openssl for encryption) on a file-by-file basis rather than just backing
> > up a filesystem image and risking the whole thing if that image becomes
> > corrupted.
> 
> Here's a possible way to make backups for users homes:
> Install boxbackup, create a configfile per user, add a line to .profile
> that runs boxbackup in snapshot modes everytime a user logs in or logs
> out.
> Boxbackup transfers and stores the backups encrypted. So no need to
> worry there.
> 

I'm not familiar with boxbackup (I'll look it up later).  Something
similar was that I figured that the encrypted images could be under,
e.g. /enchome and the user's .profile may cause the encrypted volume to
be mounted over their /home/<username> directory.

Doug.