[wplug-internet] Backups

[Bill Moran]

In response to Michael Semcheski <mhsemcheski at gmail.com>:

> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Bill Moran<wmoran at potentialtech.com> wrote:
> > I'm confused.  Please define "target" machine.  Are you saying the machine
> > storing the backup can read the backup?  How can that be possible unless
> > you mounted the FS from the backup system?
> 
> OK, the target system is my computer, and the linode system is the WPLUG server.
> 
> 1. The linode system ssh's to the target and mounts the encrypted
> filesystem on the target.

#1 is not in line with your original proposal, and therefore doesn't
meet the original requirements.

The first step should be to use FUSE/sshfs to mount the encrypted
filesystem _over_ ssh/scp.  Doing it that way would prevent the system
with the data from ever accessing it, since the filesystem is never
actually mounted on the computer hosting it.

That is, unless FUSE works radically different than other implementations
I've seen.

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Bill Moran
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