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Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 09:52:28 +0400 From: gremlin@...mlin.ru To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com Subject: Re: openwall backup techniques On 06-Jul-2013 15:23:27 +0400, croco@...nwall.com wrote: > as there's no rsync in Openwall, ftp://gremlin.people.openwall.com/pub/linux/Owl/SRPMS/rsync-3.0.9-g1.src.rpm (this file has a timestamp of 2012-05-28) > and it is a bit hard to run rdiff-backup which is in Python > (and Python is not included into the distro), I hope we'll avoid it ALAP... > the only incremental backup method left is with GNU tar. > May be someone could make the > http://openwall.info/wiki/internal/gnu-tar-incremental-backups > wiki page a bit more verbose? As of now, it only describes the > process on the 'ideology' level, so it is necessary to google > up a lot of actual information to implement the same thing. > What I'd be glad to see there are samples of actual tar commands, > the authorized_keys file samples (with all these restriction > directives), may be even crontab entries, and the involved scripts, > if any. I'd insist on using rsync (and even adding it to the mainstream Owl distribution): unless being run as a daemon for the rsync:// protocol, it is generally as safe as underlying ssh. -- Alexey V. Vissarionov aka Gremlin from Kremlin <gremlin ПРИ gremlin ТЧК ru> GPG key ID: 0xEF3B1FA8, keyserver: hkp://subkeys.pgp.net GPG key fingerprint: 8832 FE9F A791 F796 8AC9 6E4E 909D AC45 EF3B 1FA8
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