[COLUG] Live CD for backups

[Duane]

Kevin Reilly wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I do some work for a non-profit who encrypt there hard drives(Windows). 
> Most backup solutions don't work for them for security reasons or 
> practicality. They have done backups from the mounted encrypted system 
> to a TrueCrypt container on a USB hard disk. They want snapshots of the 
> whole drive for restores. I was thinking a good solution would be to do 
> a straight dd off a booted CD to a USB attached hard drive. Does anyone 
> know if this exist already? Is there a better solution?
> 
> My goggling has not turned up anything but Knoppix type solutions. Would 
> DSL support the USB and a scripted frontend to do the backup and 
> restore? Has anyone done something like this already?

Not sure if this is suitable or not, but I've used boxbackup in the 
past, this is useful for backups over the net primarily, but any 
untrusted box will do, it acts as a kind of cvs+encryption, basically 
the other end has no idea what is being stored, usually only the end 
sending info has a key to decrypt the info.

It's other useful feature is it will scan the hdd for changes 
periodically and back those files up, if anything changes multiple times 
it will just delay the backup of the file 6 hours to prevent too many 
copies etc (all configurable).

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  Duane

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