[COLUG] Live CD for backups

[Joe Whipple]

You may want to look at some hardware devices that insert on the data 
cable before the drives (either SCSI or IDE).
They are fast, encrypt anything going to the drive, and some use USB 
crypto keys to unlock for added security, like shipping the drive.

See:
SATA/PATA
http://www.cooldrives.com/usdriv.html
http://www.cooldrives.com/encryption-pci-adapter-x-wall-chip.html
http://www.addonics.com/products/cipher/
http://www.dataencryption.ca/paranoia2.html

TAPE
http://www.dataencryption.ca/paranoia2.html

Our company is going to be using a device that plugs inline to the SCSI 
cable that encrypts/decrypts the data before it hits the tape device.

Hope this helps.

Joe


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?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Kevin
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