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Incremental encrypted backup on DVDs or similar media?
Hi,
I am looking for a solution to the following problem: A big amount of data needs to be backed up regularly on external media such as DVD-RAM or MO disks; external hard disk drives are already used for secondary backup but this is required in addition. TrueCrypt works well with hard disks and therefore can be used for encrypted backups onto these. However, TrueCrypt does not work well at all with external media such as DVD-RAM or MO disks, it is slow as hell (writing into a TrueCrypt container on a DVD-RAM is maybe 50x slower than normal writing onto a DVD-RAM). Since only a small fraction of the data changes from time to time, incremental (or differential) backups are performed. Now, I haven't found a pratical solution yet to save incremental backups onto external media like DVDs in an encrypted form. 1) TrueCrypt is not an option for the above named reason. 2) Creating one single encrypted ZIP, RAR or any other compressed archive is not an option because it would require rewriting that huge file every time a backup is made. The same applies to creating a disk image. BTW, is there any disk imaging software that can reliably perform incremental (or differential) backups that are encrypted with a *secure* algorithm like AES (a simple password is not enough)? 3) There are tools that encrypt each file individually. In this case, one huge file wouldn't have to be rewritten every time a backup is made. But then how can I automatically detect AND select those modified or new files for encryption and backup? Do you know any solution for creating incremental encrypted backups on DVDs or similar media? Peter |
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Incremental encrypted backup on DVDs or similar media?
Previously Peter Frank wrote:
Hi, I am looking for a solution to the following problem: A big amount of data needs to be backed up regularly on external media such as DVD-RAM or MO disks; external hard disk drives are already used for secondary backup but this is required in addition. TrueCrypt works well with hard disks and therefore can be used for encrypted backups onto these. However, TrueCrypt does not work well at all with external media such as DVD-RAM or MO disks, it is slow as hell (writing into a TrueCrypt container on a DVD-RAM is maybe 50x slower than normal writing onto a DVD-RAM). Since only a small fraction of the data changes from time to time, incremental (or differential) backups are performed. Now, I haven't found a pratical solution yet to save incremental backups onto external media like DVDs in an encrypted form. 1) TrueCrypt is not an option for the above named reason. 2) Creating one single encrypted ZIP, RAR or any other compressed archive is not an option because it would require rewriting that huge file every time a backup is made. The same applies to creating a disk image. BTW, is there any disk imaging software that can reliably perform incremental (or differential) backups that are encrypted with a *secure* algorithm like AES (a simple password is not enough)? Use Gnu tar. It does incremental by timestamp. For this it uses a file with the last backed up time for each file and backs up only if the file on disk is newer. Only the file with the timestamp needs to be unencrypted. For encryption you can then use GNUpg/PGP. 3) There are tools that encrypt each file individually. In this case, one huge file wouldn't have to be rewritten every time a backup is made. But then how can I automatically detect AND select those modified or new files for encryption and backup? As I said, GNU tar does it for you. I believe there is a port for Windows as well. Do you know any solution for creating incremental encrypted backups on DVDs or similar media? See above. With this approach only the archives would be encrypted, the disk itself would be unencrypted. Arno |
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