Re: [Tails-ux] Backups of the persistent volume

Lawrie:
> The problem is just that though - it's technical .. and it has 10
> steps. I think it's fair to say that this is just way beyond most
> user's ability. Tails should be something that the very average dude
> feels confident in using.

You're right that it's very bad for usability and I also think that we
had two different usecases in mind.

> My idea to reiterate is just to _clone the whole complete memory stick -
> from start to finish - with one click._ Then if you loose the first one
> you have the second one. From a coding and security aspect it would
> appear to be pretty simple - but there again I don't know much about
> this sort of thing. Maybe it's not simple at all?

As always there are multiple ways to achieve the same effect, but I'm
also uncertain which one to choose.
One could, for instance, make a 1:1 copy of all partitions on the USB
stick (like when using dd), or make only a 1:1 copy of the (read only)
Tails system, create a new encrypted partition, and copy/rsync the data
from the old partition to the new one.
In the first example, one would get two bit-equal USB sticks (including
the encrypted partition with its passphrase-encrypted session key) and
in the latter example, the USB sticks look different (new session key)
but contain the same data (after the partition is unlocked).

~flapflap