[Novalug] Encryption software

James Ewing Cottrell 3rd JECottrell3@Comcast.NET
Tue May 8 15:24:18 EDT 2012


On 5/7/2012 6:42 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 04:41:19PM -0400, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:
>> I am wondering why you would encrypt the backup but not the online version.
>>
>> If you can snapshot the mirror, you can just copy the snapshot to an
>> encrypted disk.
> I presume you mean to copy the entire FS using the snapshot as a
> static version of the FS.  Copying the snapshot itself would not
> be a suitable backup.
>
What makes you say that? That is one of the raisons d'etre for 
snapshots. Now if you want to get Religious about things, you would need 
to create the snapshot when the disk was unmounted, or at least tell 
your applications to "flush their state".

Elaborate please.

JIM



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