On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 06:50 -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 02:10:15AM +1800, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > > > I was hoping for something that would create a loop back image in > > the form of a file that I could just mount and backup the files to , > > maintaining perms and datetimes - then burn to a cd, which I could > > mount and then mount the encrypted fs from. > > Oh, well, why didn't you say so? > > There are several encrypted file systems available for Linux. You > could simply put your home directory on one. > > I don't know if there is any way to build a CD/DVD with an encrypted > version of the ISO file system. I think that would be useful for > distributing data with some security. A bit of googling should turn > something up. > > > > > I will settle for just taring and burning to a regular dvdr. > > Good luck. > What about truecrypt? http://www.truecrypt.org/ If I was making a backup, I would tar and encrypt as explained before and then RAR the files to make the files sizes easier to deal with. Just a thought.
