Re: [Tails-dev] Feedback wanted on planned implementation of…

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Author: intrigeri
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Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Feedback wanted on planned implementation of Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup Persistent Volume
Hi,

CustaiCo wrote (04 Apr 2014 09:15:06 GMT) :
> What about something like DAR ( http://dar.linux.free.fr/ )? It already
> supports ACL backups. It already supports encrypting the archive with a
> symmentric key and a strong algorithm, and it looks like it should be
> configurable pretty easily with files. It seems like it would support
> differential backups at a later time pretty easy.


I've never used it, but it certainly looks closer to what we need than
good ol' tar. It seems decently maintained in Debian, but little used
according to popcon.

> The only problem I see using that is that I'm not entirely sure how I'm
> going to get it the key phrase in a secure enough way to the program,
> and that there aren't any existing perl wrappers I can find for the
> program.


Does it support providing the passphrase on STDIN, or via a temporary
file, maybe?

Cheers,
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